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Does substance use affect educational outcomes?

Rees, Daniel I. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does the use of alcohol and illegal …

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Manasan, Rosario G.; Parel, Danileen Kristel C. - 2013

The amendment of the existing excise tax law on tobacco and alcoholic products is the only revenue measure that the Aquino administration has certified as urgent to date. This paper reviews and evaluates the different versions of both houses of the sin tax reform measure. Republic Act (RA)...

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Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales

Lindo, Jason M.; Siminski, Peter; Yerokhin, Oleg - 2014

primary basis for continued efforts to restrict youth access to alcohol. It is important to keep in mind, though, that … policymakers have a wide variety of alcohol-control options available to them, and understanding how these policies may complement … alcohol has effects on motor vehicle accidents of any type in New South Wales, despite having large effects on drinking and on …

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Driving to drink: Tax avoidance along the Washington-Oregon border

LoPiccalo, K. - 2016

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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Does Pre-Play Social Interaction Improve Negotiation Outcomes?

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Mateu, Guillermo; … - 2018

We study experimentally the impact of pre-play social interactions on negotiations. These interactions are often complex. Thus, we attempt to isolate the impact of several of its more common components: conversations, food, and beverages, which could be alcoholic or nonalcoholic. To do this, our...

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Tax design in the alcohol market

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2017

We study optimal corrective taxation in the alcohol market. Consumption generates negative externalities that are non …-linear in the total amount of alcohol consumed. If tastes for products are heterogeneous and correlated with marginal … framework and empirically for the UK alcohol market. Welfare gains from optimally varying rates are higher the more concentrated …

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Does substance use affect academic performance?

Rees, Daniel I. - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

A non-trivial portion of traffic fatalities involve alcohol or illicit drugs. But does substance use—which is linked to … alcohol has a negative effect on the grades of university students. Likewise, there is evidence that marijuana use reduces the …

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The Russian food, alcohol, and tobacco consumption patterns during transition

Rizov, Marian; Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya K. - In: Collegium Antropologicum (Coll Antropol) 36 (2012) 4, pp. 1143-1154

changes in fat, protein, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and on diet's diversity during the transition period 1994 - 2004 in …, inflation has a significant impact on alcohol and tobacco consumption, while unemployment significantly impacts only smoking … behaviour. Russian consumers respond to own prices of fat and protein as well as to own prices of alcohol and tobacco but to a …

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Revenue functions and Dupuit curves for indirect taxes with cross-border shopping

Aasness, Jørgen; Nygård, Odd Erik - 2009

The partial revenue from each indirect tax and the total revenue from all indirect taxes on consumer goods are derived as functions of all commodity prices, the tax rates of each commodity, total expenditure and demographic variables using a complete demand system. Within this framework we...

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Commodity tax competition - purchases of spirits in the Scandinavian countries

Nygård, Odd Erik - 2009

A simulation model consisting of a representative consumer for each Scandinavian country is constructed and calibrated, in which consumers consume two goods: spirits and 'other goods'. Spirits is exposed to cross-border shopping, and the countries engage in tax competition. The equilibrium tax...

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