previously used to justify such taxation and, instead, emphasize that neither explicit nor implicit markets and prices for sugar … content can be expected to emerge. Hence, in the absence of any regulation, the sugar content of sugar-sweetened beverages … (SSBs) would be inefficiently high. This market failure can be corrected by a tax on the sugar content per unit of the SSB …

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

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 …

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector …

We re-characterize American slavery as inefficient, whereby emancipation generated substantial aggregate economic gains …

-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests …

affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …