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Health Consequences of Easier Access to Alcohol: New Zealand Evidence
Scrimgeour, Dean; Conover, Emily - Department of Economics, Colgate University - 2012
We evaluate the health effects of a reduction in New Zealand's minimum legal purchase age for alcohol. Difference …-in-differences (DD) estimates show a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations among those newly eligible to purchase … ineligible younger cohorts. There is little evidence of alcohol either complementing or substituting for drugs. We do not find …
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Revenue functions and Dupuit curves for indirect taxes with cross-border shopping
Aasness, Jørgen; Nygård, Odd Erik - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009
The partial revenue from each indirect tax and the total revenue from all indirect taxes on consumer goods are derived as functions of all commodity prices, the tax rates of each commodity, total expenditure and demographic variables using a complete demand system. Within this framework we...
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Commodity tax competition – purchases of spirits in the Scandinavian countries
Nygård, Odd Erik - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009
A simulation model consisting of a representative consumer for each Scandinavian country is constructed and calibrated, in which consumers consume two goods: spirits and 'other goods'. Spirits is exposed to cross-border shopping, and the countries engage in tax competition. The equilibrium tax...
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