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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2011 Mar 17;30(3):560–567. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.03.002

Table 2.

Estimated tax and price effects

Odds Ratio
Standard Error
(p-value)
[Elasticity]		 Overall Male Female White Black Hispanic
Real Cigarette Excise Tax Rate 0.88*
0.06
(0.06)
[−0.09]		 0.93
0.08
(.41)
[−0.05]		 0.81**
0.06
(.001)
[−0.15]		 0.99
0.08
(0.852)
[−0.01]		 0.74**
0.05
(0.000)
[−0.21]		 0.86
0.13
(0.326)
[−0.125]
Real Weighted Price per Pack 0.88**
0.03
(0.001)
[−0.31]		 0.92**
0.04
(.05)
[−0.22]		 0.83**
0.04
(.000)
[−0.48]		 0.94
0.05
(0.244)
[−0.145]		 0.82**
0.04
(0.000)
[−0.50]		 0.85**
0.07
(0.033)
[−0.44]

Note: Referent group includes female, white, less than high school education, living with single parent, age 5. Also controls for cumulative state tobacco control program funding, baseline adult smoking prevalence, gender, race/ethnicity, household size, and parental education attainment at baseline and includes age indicators and a dummy variable to indicate pre- and post-Master Settlement Agreement (1998).

*

Significant at 10%.

**

Significant at 5%.