The effectiveness of tobacco taxation on university students : an empirical study on Singapore’s February 2018 tax hike

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lim, Eugenia Hui Jie, Wong, Priya Wan Qi, Theng, Alicia Cui Mei
• مؤلفون آخرون: Leong Kaiwen
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Economic theory::Microeconomics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139123

Taxes are part of Singapore’s multi-pronged approach in curbing cigarette consumption. Becker and Murphy’s Rational Addiction Model implied that taxes are effective in curbing cigarette consumption among younger individuals. This paper seeks to test the empirical validity of this implication on u...