Philip Decicca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1070203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Decicca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Decicca |
| SIGNATURE | DECICCA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4586-4852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Causal Returns to Education and Compulsory Schooling in the United States
Although early instrumental variable studies documented a significantly positive monetary return to education, more recent studies have found less evidence to support this conclusion. The authors provide a new perspective on these recent studies by demonstrating that additional compulsory schooling increases both education and subsequent earnings, but only in states where there exist relatively strong effects of these laws on schooling choices. P…
Rockefellers and Goldwaters
The effect of education on overall fertility
Who Pays Cigarette Taxes? The Impact of Consumer Price Search
We conduct an empirical study of the impact of consumer price search on the shifting of cigarette excise taxes to consumer prices. We use novel data on the prices that smokers report paying and document substantial price dispersion. We find that cigarette taxes are shifted at lower rates to carton buyers and, especially, smokers who buy cartons of cigarettes in a state other than their state of residence. We also find evidence that taxes are shif…
Local labor market fluctuations and health
Putting Out the Fires
This paper reexamines whether higher cigarette taxes will substantially reduce youth smoking. We study the impact of taxes during exactly the period in adolescence in which most smokers start their habits. We find weak or nonexistent tax effects in models of the onset of smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, models of the onset of heavy smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, and discrete-time hazard models that include state fixed effect…
Putting Out the Fires
This paper reexamines whether higher cigarette taxes will substantially reduce youth smoking. We study the impact of taxes during exactly the period in adolescence in which most smokers start their habits. We find weak or nonexistent tax effects in models of the onset of smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, models of the onset of heavy smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, and discrete-time hazard models that include state fixed effect…
The effect of education on overall fertility
Putting Out the Fires
This paper reexamines whether higher cigarette taxes will substantially reduce youth smoking. We study the impact of taxes during exactly the period in adolescence in which most smokers start their habits. We find weak or nonexistent tax effects in models of the onset of smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, models of the onset of heavy smoking between eighth and twelfth grades, and discrete-time hazard models that include state fixed effect…
Local labor market fluctuations and health
Who Pays Cigarette Taxes? The Impact of Consumer Price Search
We conduct an empirical study of the impact of consumer price search on the shifting of cigarette excise taxes to consumer prices. We use novel data on the prices that smokers report paying and document substantial price dispersion. We find that cigarette taxes are shifted at lower rates to carton buyers and, especially, smokers who buy cartons of cigarettes in a state other than their state of residence. We also find evidence that taxes are shif…
The effect of education on overall fertility
Rockefellers and Goldwaters
Causal Returns to Education and Compulsory Schooling in the United States
Although early instrumental variable studies documented a significantly positive monetary return to education, more recent studies have found less evidence to support this conclusion. The authors provide a new perspective on these recent studies by demonstrating that additional compulsory schooling increases both education and subsequent earnings, but only in states where there exist relatively strong effects of these laws on schooling choices. P…
Demographic economics (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Educational attainment (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)