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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating

Dippel, Christian - 2015

to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies 'sugar islands' from the year of slave …

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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014

duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …

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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889

Asker, John - 2019

customers--that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the …

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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program

Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2008

The recent world energy crisis raises serious questions about the extent to which the United States should increase domestic oil production and develop alternative sources of energy. We examine the energy developments in Brazil as an important experiment. Brazil has reduced its share of imported...

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The Political Economy of Controls : American Sugar

Krueger, Anne O. - 1988

examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other … developed, and complexity of regulation served as an important factor perpetuating the sugar program. Similarly, lobbying and …

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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Burnard, Trevor - 2017

This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...

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Agricultural Fires and Infant Health

Rangel, Marcos A. - 2016

Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to study. Drawing on data from satellites, air monitors, and vital records, we study how smoke from sugarcane harvest fires affects infant health in the Brazilian state that...

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Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence

Allcott, Hunt - 2019

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a … remarkable quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages, and the evidence suggests that this generates significant health costs …), our calculations imply that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are welfare enhancing, and indeed that the optimal nationwide …

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The Pass-Through of the Largest Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages : The Case of Boulder, Colorado

Cawley, John - 2018

We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine …

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The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children

Cawley, John - 2018

is some evidence of a slight reduction in adults' overall sugar consumption from sweetened beverages, with larger …

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