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The Fragility of the Affordable Care Act's Universal Coverage Strategy

Weeks, Elizabeth - 2015

This Essay examines the very fragile nature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) approach to near-universal health insurance coverage, as accentuated by a variety of implementation hurdles and challenges. The ACA's vision for expanding insurance coverage was to build on our...

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Proposed Amendments To H.R. 3617 : The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2021

Torres-Lugo, Diego - 2022

This research paper explores multiple points of criticism in the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2021, and potential amendments to the Act that will address fairness in taxation, expungement of cannabis related offenses, and management of the Opportunity Trust...

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Energy Policy, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014

A weather beaten economy has become a wake up call. The International Energy Agency predicts that carbon emissions will rise 130 percent and oil demand will rise 70 percent by 2050. A sound energy policy that addresses climate change relies upon widespread transfer and implementation of...

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Food Price Policies and the Distribution of Body Mass Index : Theory and Empirical Evidence from France

Etile, Fabrice - 2009

This paper uses French food-expenditure data to examine the effect of the local prices of 23 food product categories on the distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) in a sample of French adults. A dynamic choice model using standard assumptions in Physiology is developed. It is shown that the slope...

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Globalization and the Future of Social Protection

Tanzi, Vito - 2021

Social protection in industrial countries has been provided through regulations, tax expenditures, and public spending. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments` ability to continue providing this social protection at the level of recent decades. Specifically, tax competition...

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Meeting fiscal challenges in Japan's rapidly ageing society

Jones, Randall Sidney; Seitani, Haruki - 2019

Japan’s gross government debt of 226% of GDP in 2018 is the highest ever recorded in the OECD area, and places the economy at risk. The government now aims to achieve a primary surplus by FY 2025. Additional fiscal consolidation, based on a detailed plan covering specific spending cuts and tax...

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The Role of Fiscal Policies in Health Promotion

Sassi, Franco; Belloni, Annalisa; Capobianco, Chiara - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2013

Taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities are in widespread use. Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products have been subjected to taxation for a long time in most countries. Several OECD governments have passed legislation to increase existing taxes or to introduce new taxes...

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Tax sharing in insurance market: A useful parametrization

Viauroux, Christelle - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2011

In this paper, we use a Principal-Agent model (à la Holmström) to evaluate the economic impacts at imposing a tax on insurance payment resulting from an optimal contract in presence of moral hazard. We show that, in most cases, the tax generates a disincentive for the risk averse insured to...

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Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India

Chaloupka, Frank Joseph Chaloupka, IV; Guindon, G. Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The threat posed by smoking to health in India is severe. Already 1 in 5 of all adult male deaths and 1 in 20 of all … adult female deaths at ages 30-69 are due to smoking and India will soon have 1 million smoking deaths a year. Increasing … tobacco prices has been found to be the single most effective method to reduce smoking. Yet, bidis, the most common form of …

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What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Ruhm, Christopher; Jones, Alison Snow; Kerr, William C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...

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