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The Structure of Cigarette Excises in the EU : From Myths to Reality
Primorac, Marko - 2017
Although it may at first seem unimportant, the structure of excise taxes on cigarettes greatly affects the price of cigarettes, the structure of the consumption, but also the amount of the tax revenue. EU Directive 2011/64/EU prescribes the combination of the specific and the proportional (ad...
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Smoking Today and Stopping Tomorrow : A Limited Foresight Perspective
Jehiel, Philippe; Lilico, Andrew - 2021
smoking when they get older - and their foresight is better …
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'Institutionalization Aversion' and the Willingness to Pay for Home Health Care
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
We examine the presence of a systematic preference for independent living at old age which we refer as “institutionalization aversion” (IA). Given that IA is not observable from revealed preferences, we draw on a survey experiment to elicit individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid...
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Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki - 2010
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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Should We Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
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Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care
Cremer, Helmuth - 2008
We consider a two-period model. In the first period, individuals consume two goods: one is sinful and the other is not. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate this effect. In the second period, individuals can...
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Tobacco Taxation in the European Union
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2006
Later this year, the European Commission has to submit a report to the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament with its views on tobacco tax policy in the EU. A 2004 publication issued by the Commission expressed the beliefs that tobacco consumption should be controlled by increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780022
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Smoking Habits : Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter
Loureiro, Maria L. - 2009
We use instrumental variable methods to investigate whether the impact of parental smoking habits on their children …'s smoking decisions is a causal one. We find evidence of same-sex role models in two-parent households: mothers play a crucial … role in determining their daughters' smoking decisions, while fathers' smoking habits are primarily imitated by their sons …
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals’ nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
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