Does tobacco expenditure influence household spendingpatterns in Ghana?: Evidence from the Ghana 2012/2013Living Standards Survey

Tobacco Induced Diseases

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Grieve Chelwa¹  Abdul Gafar A. Masa-ud²  Corné van Walbeek² 

[1] Graduate School ofBusiness, University of CapeTown, Cape Town, SouthAfrica;

[2] School of Economics,University of Cape Town, CapeTown, South Africa;

关键词: tobacco;    crowding-out;    household expenditure;   

DOI  :  10.18332/tid/120936

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionThere is a growing literature on the ‘crowding-out’ effects of tobaccoexpenditure, 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. Thisstudy aims to investigate whether tobacco influences expenditure patterns withinGhanaian households.MethodsWe estimate a demand system of quadratic conditional Engel curves for aset of twelve groups of commodities using the 2012/2013 Ghana Living StandardsSurvey. Unlike previous studies we use the GMM 3SLS estimator, which providesmore efficient parameter estimates due to heteroskedastic errors inherent in crosssectionaldatasets of this nature.ResultsThe results show that Ghanaian households that spend on tobacco aremore 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 welfarein Ghana.

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