Estimating the effects of cigarette taxes on birth outcomes.
Can Public Policy
; 37(2): 257-76, 2011.
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| ID: mdl-22073425
ABSTRACT
Employing provincial data from 1979 to 2004 allows us to exploit the significant (45 percent to 60 percent) reduction in excise taxes in Eastern Canada enacted in February 1994 to estimate the impacts of cigarette taxes on birth outcomes. Empirical estimates suggest that an increase in cigarette taxes is significantly associated with lower infant mortalities. However, we also find some evidence of a counter-intuitive positive correlation between taxes and fetal deaths. Overall, conditional on methodology, we find increased lagged per capita health expenditures and the number of physicians to be significantly associated with improvements in birth outcomes.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Impuestos
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Fumar
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Mortalidad Infantil
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Gastos en Salud
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Muerte Fetal
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
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Fr
Revista:
Can Public Policy
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article