Do state minimum markup/price laws work? Evidence from retail scanner data and TUS-CPS

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages i52-i59

  Huang, Jidong ^a   Chriqui, Jamie F ^b   Delong, Hillary ^a   Mirza, Maryam ^b   Diaz, Megan C ^b   Chaloupka, Frank J ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Price; Public policy; Taxation

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; DATA BASE; HUMAN; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOBACCO USE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING PREVENTION; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING PREVENTION; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027287134     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053093     Document Type: Article

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