Cigarette Consumption

Description

a panel of 46 observations from 1963 to 1992

number of observations : 1380

observation : regional

country : United States

Usage

data(Cigar)

Format

A dataframe containing :

state

state abbreviation

year

the year

price

price per pack of cigarettes

pop

population

pop16

population above the age of 16

cpi

consumer price index (1983=100)

ndi

per capita disposable income

sales

cigarette sales in packs per capita

pimin

minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

Source

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption”, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, 3, 321–335.

Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, 117–126.

References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2003) Econometric analysis of panel data, John Wiley and sons, http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series