Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource … optimum taxes. …

contrasts it with the effect of excise taxes. Exploiting data on cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine - as well as state and time … particular young children. In contrast, we find that higher taxes are an efficient way to decrease exposure to tobacco smoke …

kind is 'cheap' relative to universal income redistribution, i.e., it can be effectively provided even with low taxes …Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However …, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political …

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

; redistribution of resources and nurturing communitarian values. …