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subsequent reinstatement, of the 5% gasoline sales tax in Illinois and Indiana following a temporary price spike in the spring of …
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a reduction in the federal excise tax on gasoline. Whether the tax shift is progressive (relative to the pivot point) or …
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Claims of the regressivity of gasoline taxes typically rely on annual surveys of consumer income and expenditures which … show that gasoline expenditures are a larger fraction of income for very low income households than for middle or high … income. It uses data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to reassess the claim that gasoline taxes are regressive by …
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Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel …
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for gasoline prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We …Traditional least squares estimates of the responsiveness of gasoline consumption to changes in gasoline prices are … biased toward zero, given the endogeneity of gasoline prices. A seemingly natural solution to this problem is to instrument …
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Economists promote energy taxes as cost-effective. But policymakers raise concerns about their regressivity, or disproportional burden on poorer families, preferring to set energy efficiency standards instead. I first show that in theory, regulations targeting energy efficiency are more...
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Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...
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consequences of the gasoline tax, bus and light rail charges and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. Gas taxes have become more … the gasoline tax with a household-level VMT tax would increase the average tax burden on households in the top income and …
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In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and …
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state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and importantly we estimate the dependence of pass-through on factors … constraining the gasoline and diesel supply chains. We consider several factors that alter the elasticity of supply, including … within state heterogeneity in gasoline content requirements, refinery capacity utilization, inventory constraints, and …
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