Men, Women, and Addiction: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

IV Frank Joseph Chaloupka ()

No 3267, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Cigarette demand equations, derived from the Becker-Murphy model of rational addictive behavior, are estimated separately for men and women. These demand equations account for the reinforcement, tolerance, and withdrawal factors characterizing addictive consumption. Results obtained from these demand equations support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is an addictive behavior. Particularly interesting are the findings that men are responsive to changes in the price of cigarettes, with a long run price elasticity centered on -0.60, while women are virtually unresponsive to price changes. Men, however, are found to behave more myopically than women.

Date: 1990-02
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