Who Pays Cigarette Taxes? The Impact of Consumer Price Search
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19315975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Decicca (0000-0002-4586-4852, McMaster University), Donald Kenkel (Cornell University), Feng Liu (0000-0002-3570-4222, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 516-529 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00303 |
| OpenAlex | W2000286829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 26 |
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 shifted at somewhat lower rates to the prices paid by heavier smokers and at somewhat higher rates to the prices paid by smokers of light cigarettes
Carton · Demographic economics · Economics · Excise · Macroeconomics · Monetary economics · Residence · Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 1.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |