Donald Kenkel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1456271 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donald Kenkel |
| PRENOMES | Donald |
| SOBRENOME | Kenkel |
| ASSINATURA | KENKEL D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Letter from Former SBCA Presidents and JBCA Editors to Oira Administrator
Economic Efficiency-Based Benefit–Cost Analysis
This paper is based on public comments I submitted in 2023 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the draft revisions to its Circular A-4 guidance on “Regulatory Analysis.” It includes my comments as submitted and a “prologue” and “epilogue” written after OMB published the 2023 version of Circular A-4. The major issues discussed in my and the other public comments on the 2023 revisions have been long been, and will remain, central to the…
Do Opportunity Costs of Regulations Appropriately Benefit or Inappropriately Burden Disadvantaged Consumers
President Biden’s first-day memo “Modernizing Regulatory Review” directs the Office of Management and Budget to “propose procedures that take into account the distributional consequences of regulations... to ensure that regulatory initiatives appropriately benefit and do not inappropriately burden disadvantaged, vulnerable, or marginalized communities.” This paper makes two contributions. First, it discusses how economic analysis can transparentl…
Tradeoffs between resistance to antimicrobials in public health and their use in agriculture
Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to select resistant bacteria potentially transferred to humans directly or indirectly via the food chain, representing a public health hazard. Yet, a major difference triggering AMU in food animal production is that in addition to therapeutic cure, farmers use antimicrobials to keep their herds healthy and highly productive, while ensuring animal welfare and food safety objectives. As a so…
Healthy Regulation
Healthy Innovation
Valuing Regulations Affecting Addictive or Habitual Goods
The analysis of regulations affecting addictive or habitual goods has drawn considerable controversy. Some studies have suggested that such regulations have only small welfare benefits, as consumers value these goods despite health benefits from quitting, while other studies suggest that information or behavioral problems make existing consumption decisions a poor guide to welfare evaluation. We examine potential utility offsets to health benefit…
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…
Private Profits and Public Health
To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on individual smokers with an archive of magazine advertisements. The rich survey data allow us to measure smokers' exposure to smoking cessation advertisements based on their magazine-reading habits. Because we …
Who kicks the habit and how they do it
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…
Economic evaluation of nutrition policy
What You Don't Know Really Won't Hurt You
Health promotion and disease prevention were established as the foci of a federal initiative by the 1979 Surgeon General's Report. As Fuchs [1974] notes, the greatest potential for health promotion and disease prevention is found in what people do and don't do to and for themselves. That is, the potential is in personal decisions about smoking, drinking, exercise, and so on. Following Mill, this raises a philosophical question: Why does society h…
Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling
The positive correlation between schooling and good health is well documented. One explanation is that schooling helps people choose healthier life-styles by improving their knowledge of the relationships between health behaviors and health outcomes. That is, schooling improves the household's allocative efficiency in producing health. This empirical study uses direct measures of health knowledge to test this explanation. Part of the relationship…
Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling
The positive correlation between schooling and good health is well documented. One explanation is that schooling helps people choose healthier life-styles by improving their knowledge of the relationships between health behaviors and health outcomes. That is, schooling improves the household's allocative efficiency in producing health. This empirical study uses direct measures of health knowledge to test this explanation. Part of the relationship…
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…
Who kicks the habit and how they do it
Valuing Regulations Affecting Addictive or Habitual Goods
The analysis of regulations affecting addictive or habitual goods has drawn considerable controversy. Some studies have suggested that such regulations have only small welfare benefits, as consumers value these goods despite health benefits from quitting, while other studies suggest that information or behavioral problems make existing consumption decisions a poor guide to welfare evaluation. We examine potential utility offsets to health benefit…
Healthy Innovation
What You Don't Know Really Won't Hurt You
Health promotion and disease prevention were established as the foci of a federal initiative by the 1979 Surgeon General's Report. As Fuchs [1974] notes, the greatest potential for health promotion and disease prevention is found in what people do and don't do to and for themselves. That is, the potential is in personal decisions about smoking, drinking, exercise, and so on. Following Mill, this raises a philosophical question: Why does society h…
Private Profits and Public Health
To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on individual smokers with an archive of magazine advertisements. The rich survey data allow us to measure smokers' exposure to smoking cessation advertisements based on their magazine-reading habits. Because we …
What You Don't Know Really Won't Hurt You
Health promotion and disease prevention were established as the foci of a federal initiative by the 1979 Surgeon General's Report. As Fuchs [1974] notes, the greatest potential for health promotion and disease prevention is found in what people do and don't do to and for themselves. That is, the potential is in personal decisions about smoking, drinking, exercise, and so on. Following Mill, this raises a philosophical question: Why does society h…
Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, and Schooling
The positive correlation between schooling and good health is well documented. One explanation is that schooling helps people choose healthier life-styles by improving their knowledge of the relationships between health behaviors and health outcomes. That is, schooling improves the household's allocative efficiency in producing health. This empirical study uses direct measures of health knowledge to test this explanation. Part of the relationship…
Economic evaluation of nutrition policy
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…
Private Profits and Public Health
To shed new light on the role private profit incentives play in promoting public health, in this paper we conduct an empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on individual smokers with an archive of magazine advertisements. The rich survey data allow us to measure smokers' exposure to smoking cessation advertisements based on their magazine-reading habits. Because we …
Who kicks the habit and how they do it
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…
Valuing Regulations Affecting Addictive or Habitual Goods
The analysis of regulations affecting addictive or habitual goods has drawn considerable controversy. Some studies have suggested that such regulations have only small welfare benefits, as consumers value these goods despite health benefits from quitting, while other studies suggest that information or behavioral problems make existing consumption decisions a poor guide to welfare evaluation. We examine potential utility offsets to health benefit…
Healthy Regulation
Healthy Innovation
Tradeoffs between resistance to antimicrobials in public health and their use in agriculture
Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to select resistant bacteria potentially transferred to humans directly or indirectly via the food chain, representing a public health hazard. Yet, a major difference triggering AMU in food animal production is that in addition to therapeutic cure, farmers use antimicrobials to keep their herds healthy and highly productive, while ensuring animal welfare and food safety objectives. As a so…
Do Opportunity Costs of Regulations Appropriately Benefit or Inappropriately Burden Disadvantaged Consumers
President Biden’s first-day memo “Modernizing Regulatory Review” directs the Office of Management and Budget to “propose procedures that take into account the distributional consequences of regulations... to ensure that regulatory initiatives appropriately benefit and do not inappropriately burden disadvantaged, vulnerable, or marginalized communities.” This paper makes two contributions. First, it discusses how economic analysis can transparentl…
Letter from Former SBCA Presidents and JBCA Editors to Oira Administrator
Economic Efficiency-Based Benefit–Cost Analysis
This paper is based on public comments I submitted in 2023 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the draft revisions to its Circular A-4 guidance on “Regulatory Analysis.” It includes my comments as submitted and a “prologue” and “epilogue” written after OMB published the 2023 version of Circular A-4. The major issues discussed in my and the other public comments on the 2023 revisions have been long been, and will remain, central to the…
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