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Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India
Chaloupka, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, IV; Guindon, G. Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … tobacco prices has been found to be the single most effective method to reduce smoking. Yet, bidis, the most common form of …
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What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?
Ruhm, Christopher; Jones, Alison Snow; Kerr, William C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...
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Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R.; Sandler, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US have relied on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards and Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS). Economists often argue that these policies are inefficient relative to carbon pricing because they ignore existing vehicles and do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278242
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Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
Viscusi, W Kip; Hersch, Joni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
financial payments of about $250 billion over 25 years. Settlement payments received by states are strongly related to smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631101
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Cigarette Excise Taxation: The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking
Chaloupka, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, IV; Tauras, John A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
manufacturers' market power. We also find that greater reliance on a specific tax has greater impact on cigarette smoking, but the …
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The Tax Benefits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals
Gentry, William N.; Penrod, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper investigates three special tax provisions for not-for-profit (NFP) hospitals. First taxes -- both income and property taxes. Second, they issue tax-exempt bonds so lenders do not pay income taxes on interest received. Third, donors deduct charitable contributions from their income tax...
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A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Researchers considering levels and trends in the resources available to the middle class traditionally measure the pre-tax cash income of either tax units or households. In this paper, we demonstrate that this choice carries significant implications for assessing income trends. Focusing on tax...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025232
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Synthesizing Econometric Evidence: The Case of Demand Elasticity Estimates
Kenkel, Donald S.; DeCicca, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
the price-elasticity of smoking help predict trends in smoking from 1995 to 2010. The demographics of the smoking … population in our baseline year predict a downward trend in smoking even if cigarette prices remained constant. Average cigarette … prices, however, more than doubled in real terms by 2010. We find that the observed declines in smoking over this period are …
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Are Closely-Held Firms Tax Shelters?
Kopczuk, Wojciech; Alstadsæter, Annette; Telle, Kjetil - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In 2004 Norwegian authorities announced a reform introducing dividend taxation for personal (but not corporate) owners to take effect starting in 2006. This change provided incentives to maximize dividends in 2004 and 2005, and to retain earnings in the following years. Using Norwegian registry...
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