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Assessing the Causal Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Spending Patterns in Zambia

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This paper adds to the literature on the crowding out effect of tobacco expenditure in two ways. Firstly, the paper uses expenditure data from a low income sub-Saharan African country, Zambia, where most households are poor. Secondly, unlike previous studies, we relax the exclusion restriction and allow the standard instrumental variable used in the literature, […]

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  • Grieve Chelwa, 2014. "Assessing the Causal Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Spending Patterns in Zambia," Working Papers 453, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    1. Jaya Jumrani & P. S. Birthal, 2017. "Does consumption of tobacco and alcohol affect household food security? Evidence from rural India," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 9(2), pages 255-279, April.
    2. Nyagwachi, Abel Otwori & Chelwa, Grieve & van Walbeek, Corné, 2020. "The effect of tobacco- and alcohol-control policies on household spending patterns in Kenya: An approach using matched difference in differences," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 256(C).
    3. Koch, Steven F., 2018. "Quasi-experimental evidence on tobacco tax regressivity," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 19-28.
    4. Grieve Chelwa & Steven F Koch, 2019. "The effect of tobacco expenditure on expenditure shares in South African households: A genetic matching approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(9), pages 1-16, September.

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    Keywords

    Household Survey; Market Structure; Quantitative Methods; Social welfare;
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    JEL classification:

    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation

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