Format
A dataframe containing :
- state
- state abbreviation
- year
- the year
- price
- price per pack of cigarettes
- pop
- population
- pop16
- population above the age of 16
- cpi
- consumer price index (1983=100)
- ndi
- per capita disposable income
- sales
- cigarette sales in packs per capita
- pimin
- minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes
Source
Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption”, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, 3, 321--335. Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, 117--126.