Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Gruber, Jonathan H ^a   Mullainathan, Sendhil ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

excise taxes; happiness; tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 85117526005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1538-0637.1412     Document Type: Article

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