May 2014
Alcohol and Tobacco, Health and Development
December 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Alcohol and Tobacco
How would taxing cigarettes and bidis affect smoking rates in India? How do socioeconomic factors affect the impact of such taxes?Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Antibiotic Resistance
Although much has been written about the implications of monopoly power for the rate of extraction of natural resources, the specific case in which the resource can be sold in two markets with different elasticities of demand has escaped notice. We find that a monopolist facing two markets with...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Antibiotic Resistance
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Malaria
Living in malaria-endemic regions places an economic burden on households even if they do not actually suffer an episode of malaria. Households living with endemic malaria are less likely to have access to economic opportunities and may have to modify agricultural practices and other household...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Malaria
Malaria treatment has long relied on chloroquine, but in a world of increasing resistance, which alternative treatment should replace this failing drug?Read more
May 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Alcohol and Tobacco
Studies of the impact of tobacco prices on decisions to initiate and quit smoking have, to date, largely been restricted to developed countries. Such analyses, when set in developing countries, are complicated by the availability of a wide range of tobacco products that are nicotine substitutes for...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Malaria
Malaria is a silent killer that takes the lives of an estimated one million children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa each year. This disease, caused by a mosquito-borne parasite, kills as many as three million persons annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with...Read more
May 2010
Health and Development, Alcohol and Tobacco
Although excise taxes on beer, wine, and spirits raise about $15 billion a year in revenue for federal and state governments, current alcohol tax rates in the United States are low by historical standards. In 1980, alcohol taxes represented about 22 percent of the pre-tax price of alcohol, whereas...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Alcohol and Tobacco
Due to the failure to increase nominal rates in line with inflation, federal and state alcohol taxes have fallen from about 22 percent of the pretax retail price of alcoholic beverages in 1980 to about 10 percent at present. Is it time to reverse this declining trend and substantially raise tax...Read more
May 2010
Health and Development, Alcohol and Tobacco
Alcohol taxes are typically justified as a means to address externalities from alcohol abuse and to raise government revenue. Prior literature has focused on measuring the Pigouvian tax but has paid little attention to the fiscal rationale. This paper presents an analytical and simulation framework...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Alcohol and Tobacco
This paper develops and implements an analytical framework for estimating the optimal levels and welfare effects of alcohol taxes and drunk-driver penalties, accounting for externalities and how policies interact with the broader fiscal system. We find that the fiscal component of the optimal...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Malaria
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Alcohol and Tobacco
This paper provides a first attempt to estimate the cross-price elasticity between alcoholic beverages and leisure, which is critical for assessing how much alcohol taxation might be warranted on fiscal grounds. We estimate a demand system defined over alcohol, leisure, and other goods, using data...Read more
May 2010
Alcohol and Tobacco, Health and Development
One often develops stochastic ecologic simulation models based on local interactions between individuals or groups and bases systemic conclusions on trends summarized over multiple data sets generated from the model. In many cases, such models generate data sets ("realizations") each...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Alcohol and Tobacco
This paper provides a first attempt to estimate the cross-price elasticity between alcoholic beverages and leisure, which is critical for assessing how much alcohol taxation might be warranted on fiscal grounds. We estimate an Almost Ideal Demand System defined over alcohol, leisure, and other...Read more
