The Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on household Consumption Patterns in Rural China  

Oleh:

Hong Wang ; Sindelar, Jody L. ; Busch, Susan H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 6 (Mar. 2006), page 1414-1426.
Topik: smoking; smoking; tobacco expenditure; household expenditure; rural; china

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.2 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Smoking is not only unhealthy, it is also expensive. Spending on tobacco could drive out other critical expenditures, including basic needs. This crowd out effect would be greatest in low income coutnries, affecting not only the smoker but the rest of the family as well. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of tobacco spencing on household expenditure patients in rural china. China is a low income countru eith a high prevalence of smoking, especialy among men. The data a sample of 4539 households, are from a household survey conducted in six township in two provinces in rural china, Fractional logit (Flogit) model is used as the estimation method. We estimate the relationship between tobacco spending and spending on 17 other categories, controlling for socio economic and demographic characteristics of the household. The results indicate that spending on tobacco affects human capital investment (e.g. education and health), future farming productivity (e.g. farming equipment and seeds), and financial security (e.g. saving and insurance). Smokers also tend to spend more on alcohol, thus exacerbating the imapct of addictive substances on spending on basic needs. Smoking expenses can harm other family members by reducing expenditures on basic needs such as foods, utilities, and durable goods consumption. Thus smoking can have important intra family distributional impacts.

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