Does Early Life Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Permanently Harm Childhood Welfare? Evidence from Cigarette Tax Hikes

David Simon (2016) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-162", tranche="tranche150")

David Simon (2016). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 3.

Template assessment

The Table 3 treatment tax09 is a real cigarette-tax level in a state-month panel. The source estimates a continuous tax response, with weights and potentially state trends, not a binary adoption ATT.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.