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of the United States to estimate the initial incidence of a carbon tax across states. Geographic differences in incidence …, geographic differences in incidence are substantially smaller than the differences across income groups. …
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overlapping-generation and microsimulation models of the United States to estimate the initial incidence. We find that while … carbon taxes are regressive, the incidence depends much more on how carbon tax revenue is used. Recycling revenues to cut …
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In conducting economic policy, governments generally face conflicts in various objectives, e.g. between efficiency and equity. In Norway, one objective of energy politics has been to reduce electricity consumption, and several tax increases have been proposed. Whether this objective may be in...
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low food costs, and the potential health damages caused by food preservatives. However, few studies in the current …Consumers are facing a trade-off between the benefits of an increase in the length of the shelf life of food, such as … literature place emphasis on food preservatives, neither from a scientific perspective nor from an economic perspective. This …
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expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who … shift their utilization more strongly towards other providers. Our results have potential implications for health policy in …
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. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality …
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While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...
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there is a positive impact of ART eligibility on paternal health, but this does not translate into general improvements of … children's education. Instead, impacts differ by the previous reception of state support. Previous recipients of health …-contingent state support can lose the state support after initiation of ART, as their health improves after ART is initiated. For these …
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The paper analyses how equilibrium adjustments of the wage rate affect the scope for tax rate reductions when the government experiences an exogenous increase in non-tax revenues. It shows within a stylized model that increased revenue in the form of a tradable will increase the wage rate, which...
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Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
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