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 … for gasoline prices using gasoline taxes, but this approach tends to yield implausibly large price elasticities. We …

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 …

Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel …

The dramatic increase in gasoline prices from close to $1 in 1999 to $4 at their peak in 2008 made it much more … expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …

Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for … income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United States have been studied extensively, the vast majority of these studies … the past several decades have changed the responsiveness of U.S. consumers to changes in gasoline prices. In this paper …

Daily city-level expenditures and prices are used to estimate the price responsiveness of gasoline demand in the U ….S. Using a frequency of purchase model that explicitly acknowledges the distinction between gasoline demand and gasoline …

, buy a smaller car with better gas mileage, use cleaner gasoline, and repair pollution control equipment (PCE). However … efficiency can again be obtained, but only if each person's gasoline tax rate can be made to depend on the characteristics of the … characterize second-best tax rates on gasoline and on characteristics …