期刊名称：Discussion Papers / School of Business, University of New South Wales
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Sydney
摘要：While smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in Australia,
existing policy options, except for bans on smoking at public places, seem to have
limited scope for expansion. Eight new smoking bans, introduced in six different
Australian jurisdictions over 2003 and 2005, provide a basis for evaluation. The
analysis extends a popular two-part model of smoking behaviour by GLM and
correlated random effect models. Difference-in-differences estimation using 4 waves of
the Household, Income, Labour Dynamics Australia Survey indicates that neither the
probability nor the intensity of smoking was affected. The results are robust to
alternative specifications and estimation methods.
