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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Chou, Shin-Yi - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially …

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The Super Size of America : An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Rashad, Inas - 2005

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid … Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various state-level variables have on body mass index and obesity. These …, display many of the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for …

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Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths

Grossman, Michael - 2013

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Grossman, Michael - 2012

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …

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Tax Competition With Parasitic Tax Havens

Slemrod, Joel - 2006

We develop a tax competition framework in which some jurisdictions, called tax havens, are parasitic on the revenues of other countries. The havens use real resources to help companies camouflage their home-country tax avoidance, and countries use resources in an attempt to limit the transfer of...

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Do We Now Collect Any Revenue From Taxing Capital Income?

Gordon, Roger H. - 2003

The U.S. income tax has long been recognized as a hybrid of an income and consumption tax, with elements that do not fit naturally into either pure system. The precise nature of this hybrid has important policy implications for, among other things, understanding the impact of moving closer to a...

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Do the Laws of Tax Incidence Hold? Point of Collection and the Pass-through of State Diesel Taxes

Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2013

The canonical theory of taxation holds that the incidence of a tax is independent of the side of the market which is responsible for remitting the tax to the government. However, this prediction does not survive in certain circumstances, for example when the ability to evade taxes differs across...

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The Effect of Tax Rates and Tax Bases on Corporate Tax Revenues : Estimates with New Measures of the Corporate Tax Base

Kawano, Laura - 2012

Several recent analyses have suggested that the revenue-maximizing corporate tax rate resides in the low-30's. We challenge this result by re-examining this relationship using a new compilation of changes in corporate tax base definitions for OECD countries between 1980 and 2004. By considering...

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Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation : A Unifying Model

Craig, Ashley C.; Slemrod, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide a unified analysis of taxation and taxpayer education when individuals have an incomplete understanding of a complex tax system. The analysis is independent of whether income is earned legitimately, or by avoiding or evading taxes. In this sense, learning about tax minimization...

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