TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing Gateway Theory
T2 - Do cigarette prices affect illicit drug use?
AU - Beenstock, Michael
AU - Rahav, Giora
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank Irena Vovk for her excellent research assistance; the Israel Science Foundation and the Eshkol Institute for financial support; the Israel Anti-Drug Authority for providing the data; Michael Hvoshnyansky who helped us prepare the final version of the paper; and three referees whose remarks considerably improved the paper.
PY - 2002/7
Y1 - 2002/7
N2 - We test the causal Gateway Theory of drug use dynamics by way of a natural experiment. We randomize cigarette smoking by birth cohort and cigarette prices. We use data for Israel to show that while cigarette smoking causes cannabis use, the evidence that cannabis use causes hard drug use is much weaker. These results are based on various econometric methodologies including two-stage logit (2SL), bivariate probit, and frailty analysis for survival data.
AB - We test the causal Gateway Theory of drug use dynamics by way of a natural experiment. We randomize cigarette smoking by birth cohort and cigarette prices. We use data for Israel to show that while cigarette smoking causes cannabis use, the evidence that cannabis use causes hard drug use is much weaker. These results are based on various econometric methodologies including two-stage logit (2SL), bivariate probit, and frailty analysis for survival data.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00009-7
DO - 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00009-7
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C2 - 12146597
AN - SCOPUS:0036635685
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 21
SP - 679
EP - 698
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 4
ER -