In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...

We take issue with the argument expounded, among others, by Layard (2006, Economic Journal) that status-seeking preferences justify heavier taxation of income because this serves to internalise the negative externality that the pursuit of status imposes on others. In a model where status depends...

Using a new panel dataset comprising publication and appointment data for 889 German academic economists over a quarter of a century, we confirm the familiar hypothesis that publications are important for professorial appointments, but find only a small negative effect of appointments on...

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

Unlike most other taxes that are levied on most individuals or corporations, the estate tax is levied on a small number of very large estates. This divides taxpayers sharply into two groups -- those who have experience of having paid it before and those who don'’t. Given the nature and the rate...

In this paper we test whether increasing child allowances will affect the intra-household allocation of consumption, measured by child and adult goods, holding total household resources constant. Our analysis is based on household survey data collected in Romania, where cash payments are made to...

This paper analyzes the effect of congestion toll rate change on the change of commuters' transport modal choice in Singapore's context. Amongst several alternatives that commuters can choose when they face increase of congestion tax, this study specifically tests the impact on the modal change...