Table 6.
Smoking participation response to cigarette taxes by age groups (1998–2008).
|
Three-groups |
Two-groups |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12–24 | 25–44 | 45–65 | 18–40 | 41–65 | |
| Cigarette taxes | −0.0026 (0.0043) | −0.0031 (0.0026) | −0.0055 ** (0.0023) | −0.0004 (0.0025) | −0.0069 *** (0.0020) |
| APE | −0.0007 (0.0011) | −0.0010 (0.0008) | −0.0015 ** (0.0006) | −0.0001 (0.0008) | −0.0020 *** (0.0006) |
| Tax elasticity | −0.1217 (0.1994) | −0.1139 (0.0960) | −0.2404 ** (0.0995) | −0.0153 (0.0894) | −0.2955 *** (0.0837) |
| N | 10910 | 22707 | 23529 | 28246 | |
***
Significance at 1% level,
**
significance at 5% level, and
*
significant at 10% level. Robust Standard errors clustered at the individual level are in brackets. APE is the average partial effect. All results are population weighted.