Wehby, George L.; Courtemanche, Charles J. - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 5, pp. 719-729
Previous studies estimate the average effect of cigarette price on body mass index (BMI), with recent research showing … of cigarette price on BMI by performing quantile regressions and stratifying the sample by race, education, age, and sex …. Cigarette price has a highly heterogeneous negative effect that is more than three times as strong at high BMI levels – where …