So You Want to Quit Smoking: Have You Tried a Mobile Phone?

• Tác giả: Julien Labonne
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 633.71 *Tobacco
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 307900
• Chủ đề: 1. Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120; 2. Economic Development: Human Resources; 3. Human Development; 4. Income Distribution; 5. Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120

Tóm tắt

Using spatially coded data on mobile phone coverage and panel data from 2100 households in 135 communities of the Philippines, we estimate the impact of mobile phone ownership on tobacco consumption. Purchasing a mobile phone leads to a 17.1% decrease in tobacco consumption per adult over the age of 15.