Testing Gateway Theory: Do cigarette prices affect illicit drug use?

Journal of health economics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 679-698

  Beenstock, Michael ^a   Rahav, Giora ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME; TOBACCO;

EID: 0036635685     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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