ArticleTobacco induced diseases2020
Does tobacco expenditure influence household spending patterns in Ghana?: Evidence from the Ghana 2012/2013 Living Standards Survey.
Article in Tobacco induced diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The impoverishing effect of tobacco expenditures.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Crowding-out effect of out-of-pocket expenditure on non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: a Nigerian case study.International health · 2026Article
- Tobacco and household expenditure in Egypt: insights into socioeconomic inequalities and spending profiles from the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Social norms and social opportunities: a qualitative study of influences on tobacco use among urban adolescent girls in Ghana.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Crowding-out effect of tobacco consumption in Indonesia.Tobacco control · 2024Article
- Impact of tobacco spending on intrahousehold resource allocation in Montenegro.Tobacco control · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionThere is a growing literature on the 'crowding-out' effects of tobacco expenditure, particularly in Low-to-Middle Income Countries (LMICs). However, there is no published study investigating these effects in the context of Ghana, a country where tobacco consumption is expected to increase in the future. This study aims to investigate whether tobacco influences expenditure patterns within Ghanaian households.
methodsWe estimate a demand system of quadratic conditional Engel curves for a set of twelve groups of commodities using the 2012/2013 Ghana Living Standards Survey. Unlike previous studies we use the GMM 3SLS estimator, which provides more efficient parameter estimates due to heteroskedastic errors inherent in cross-sectional datasets of this nature.
resultsThe results show that Ghanaian households that spend on tobacco are more likely to spend also on alcohol, recreation, transport and communications, but less on food, housing, and health needs.
conclusionsTobacco expenditure, through its 'crowding-in' effects on alcohol and 'crowding-out' effects on food and health expenditure worsens household welfare in Ghana.
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