Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are relatively new and there is little evidence about their impact on SSB … the effect of SSB taxes on youth consumption, and contribute to the limited evidence base on the impact of SSB taxes on …

-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and … determination, in particular budget rules, make the status quo levels of taxes and entitlements difficult to change. The second one …

, and the general public to increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy. Our findings reveal significant misperceptions about …

Do perceptions about how the government spends tax dollars affect the willingness to pay taxes? We designed a field … the share of property tax revenues that fund public schools and the share of property taxes that are redistributed to … willingness to pay taxes. We find that some perceptions about government spending have a significant effect on the probability of …

," we estimated tax multipliers using (i) a novel dataset on value-added taxes for 51 countries (21 industrial and 30 … companion paper first shows that these findings have important policy implications, given that the initial level of taxes varies …

and income taxes; (b) make wealth taxes less efficient relative to capital income taxes, at given rates of tax; (c) reduce …

Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …