cigDemand: Cigarette consumption in the US
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cigDemand

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Cigarette consumption in the US

Description

Balanced panel dataset on annual cigarette consumption in the US for the 48 continental states in the years 1985 until 1995. The dataset is available from \insertCiteStock2003;textualpdynmc and used in \insertCiteSW2019;textualpdynmc and \insertCiteFriPuaSch2022;textualpdynmc. Gratitude is owed to Jonathan Gruber of MIT for providing the data.

Usage

data(cigDemand)

Format

A dataset with 528 rows and 9 variables containing:

state: state
year: year
cpi: consumer price index (US)
pop: state population
packpc: number of cigarette packs sold per capita and year
income: state personal income (total, nominal)
tax: average federal, state, and local excise taxes on cigarettes for fiscal year in cents per pack
avgprs: average price during fiscal year in cents per pack (including sales taxes)
taxs: average excise tax for fiscal year in cents per pack (including sales taxes)

References

\insertAllCited

Examples

## Not run: 
  data(cigDemand, package = "pdynmc")
  packs <- cigDemand$packpc
  tax <- cigDemand$tax
  \donttest{plot(y = packs, x = tax)}

## End(Not run)

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