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The Price of Alcohol, Wife Abuse, and Husband Abuse

Markowitz, Sara - 1999

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the...

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Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs

Saffer, Henry - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to estimate demographic differentials in alcohol and illicit drug use, participation, own price effects and cross price effects. This paper uses a data set of over 49,000 individuals from the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse and links drug and alcohol prices...

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Alcohol Advertising and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Saffer, Henry - 1994

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The concept of an industry level advertising response function is developed and other empirical issues in estimating the effects of advertising are reviewed. The data set consists...

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The Price of Biodiesel RINs and Economic Fundamentals

Irwin, Scott H. - 2018

ceiling on the ethanol RIN (D6) and because some observers have suggested that RIN price fluctuations are too large to be …

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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

Sexton, Steven - 2011

Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...

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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels : Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices

Chen, Xiaoguang - 2011

biofuels and reduces the share of corn ethanol in the cumulative volume of biofuels produced from 50% to 10%. The tax credits …

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The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute

Anderson, Soren T. - 2010

This paper estimates household preferences for ethanol as a gasoline substitute. I develop a theoretical model linking … the shape of the ethanol demand curve to the distribution of price ratios at which individual households switch fuels. I … find that preferences are heterogeneous with many households willing to pay a premium for ethanol. This reduces the …

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Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities : Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate

Roberts, Michael J. - 2010

impact of ethanol subsidies and mandates on world food commodity prices, quantities, and food consumers' surplus. The current … US ethanol mandate requires that about 5 percent of world caloric production from corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans be used … for ethanol generation. As a result, world food prices are predicted to increase by about 30 percent and global consumer …

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2008

credit for ethanol is an example of a cost ineffective subsidy. The cost of reducing CO2 emissions through this subsidy …

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