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This paper uses store-level data on consumer liquor revenues and volume sales in Oregon to estimate the effect of state tax differentials on consumer demand. Liquor privatization in Washington led to higher prices from new taxes. I calculate the impact of tax incidence on tax avoidance using...
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The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … well as the employees who were laid off and a comparison group. These data were merged with information on alcohol … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …
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This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …
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related to alcohol consumption, narcotics use and tobacco smoking over the seventeen years prior to the implementation of the … Swedish government's first strategy for alcohol, narcotics, doping and tobacco (ANDT) in 2011. We also sought to explain the …. Our two key research questions, for each of alcohol, narcotics and smoking were: 1) How have trends in a) consumption …
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In this paper adolescent alcohol- and illicit drug-use among 1st and 2nd generation immigrants from Nordic, non … including 13,070 adolescents. Immigrants from Nordic countries were more likely to use alcohol (OR: 1.10-1.37) while immigrants … from non- European countries were less likely to use alcohol (OR: 0.52-0.81), mainly explained by the relatively low use by …
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morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal access to alcohol increases the frequency and intensity of … drinking, which results in more hospital admissions due to alcohol intoxication. The effects are stronger for boys and … access to alcohol is very high and hardly changes at the MLDA. However, teenagers consider binge drinking at weekends to be …
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In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the age of 10. We argue that early tracking creates inefficiencies because the earlier the track choice has to be made, the more it is influenced by factors other than innate...
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The objective of this paper is to empirically study if and to what extent people legally reduce their tax payments. There are few empirical studies of tax avoidance although avoidance may seriously affect the possibilities to raise tax revenue. I use a sample of Swedish siblings receiving...
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The focus of the present paper is on the intragenerational effects of nonlinear income taxation in a multiperiod framework. We investigate whether it is possible to achieve redistribution at smaller efficiency costs by enlarging the message space adopted in standard tax system (which only...
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Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to...
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