Description

This panel data set consists of 46 U.S. States over the period 1963-1992.

Usage

Format

The variables are:

state

State abbreviation

year

Year

price

Price per pack of cigarettes

pop

Population

pop16

Population above the age of 16.

cpi

Consumer price index with (1983=100

ndi

Per capita disposable income

sales

Cigarette sales in packs per capita

pimin

Minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

All variables all also available as logs.

Source

https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/supp/Cigar.txt

References

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) "Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 3(2), 321-335, doi: 10.1016/0954-349X(92)90010-4.

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(1), 117-126, doi: 10.1162/003465300558551.

Baltagi, B.H. (2013) "Econometric analysis of panel data", 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons Cigar