Miami, Florida, USA
5th Edition of Addiction World Conference 2026
Speakers - AWC 2024
Rong Hai
- Designation: University of Miami
- Country: USA
- Title: The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education
Abstract
We develop and estimate a life-cycle model of addiction in which forward-looking youth choose to smoke, attend school, work part-time, and consume while facing borrowing constraints. The model features multiple channels for studying the reciprocal causal effects of addiction and education. Variations in endowments and cigarette prices are sources of identification. We show that education causally reduces smoking. A counterfactual experiment finds that in the absence of cigarette smoking, college attendance increases by two percentage points in the population. An alternative 25% additional excise tax achieves similar results. Impacts vary substantially across persons of different cognitive and non-cognitive abilities.
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