Cigar {plm} | R Documentation

## Cigarette Consumption

### Description

a panel of 46 observations from 1963 to 1992

total number of observations : 1380

observation : regional

country : United States

### Usage

    data(Cigar)

### Format

A data frame containing :

state

  state abbreviation

year

  the year

price

  price per pack of cigarettes

pop

  population

pop16

  population above the age of 16

cpi

  consumer price index (1983=100)

ndi

  per capita disposable income

sales

  cigarette sales in packs per capita

pimin

  minimum price in adjoining states per pack of cigarettes

### Source

Online complements to Baltagi (2001):

http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi/

Online complements to Baltagi (2013):

http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=resource&bcsId=4338&itemId=1118672321&resourceId=13452

### References

Baltagi, Badi H. (2001) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, Badi H. (2013) Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th ed., John Wiley and Sons.

Baltagi, B.H. and D. Levin (1992) “Cigarette taxation: raising revenues and reducing consumption”, Structural Changes and Economic Dynamics, 3, 321–335.

Baltagi, B.H., J.M. Griffin and W. Xiong (2000) “To pool or not to pool: homogeneous versus heterogeneous estimators applied to cigarette demand”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 82, 117–126.

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