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Binge Drinking, Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, and Beverage Types
Yang, Ou; Zhao, Xueyan; Srivastava, Preety - 2015
This paper examines evidence from Australia on the factors associated with binge drinking and several alcohol …-related antisocial and unlawful behaviours. In particular, to quantify the negative externalities of excessive alcohol consumption by … valuable evidence for more effective alcohol taxation as a tool for correcting differentiated negative externalities by …
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Binge Drinking, Antisocial and Unlawful Behaviours, and Beverage Types
Yang, Ou; Zhao, Xueyan; Srivastava, Preety - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2015
This paper examines evidence from Australia on the factors associated with binge drinking and several alcohol …-related antisocial and unlawful behaviours. In particular, to quantify the negative externalities of excessive alcohol consumption by … valuable evidence for more effective alcohol taxation as a tool for correcting differentiated negative externalities by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185922
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Equal tax for equal alcohol? : beverage types and antisocial and unlawful behaviours
Srivastava, Pratima Ramful; Yang, Ou; Zhao, Xueyan - In: The economic record 98 (2022) 323, pp. 354-372
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Fiscal and externality arguments for alcohol taxes
Parry, Ian W. H.; West, Sarah E. - In: Proceedings / 97th Annual Conference on Taxation : …, (pp. 12-18). 2005
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Do alcohol taxes in Europe and the US rightly correct for externalities?
Herrnstadt, Evan; Parry, Ian W. H.; Siikamäki, Juha - In: International tax and public finance 22 (2015) 1, pp. 73-101
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Chapter 30 Alcohol
Cook, Philip J.; Moore, Michael J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1629-1673). 2000
Excess drinking is associated with lost productivity, accidents, disability, early death, crime, neglect of family responsibilities, and personality deterioration. These and related concerns have justified special restrictions on alcoholic-beverage commerce and consumption. The nature and extent...
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Taxing Sugary Drinks
Littlewood, Michael - 2016
The World Health Organisation recently recommended that governments should impose a tax on sugary drinks as a means of combating the obesity epidemic. This article examines the merits of this proposal and also suggests how, if such a tax were to be introduced, it might work. The article...
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How elastic is alcohol consumption?
Clements, Kenneth W.; Mariano, Marc Jim; Verikios, George; … - 2022
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The effect of changes in alcohol tax differentials on alcohol consumption
Gehrsitz, Markus; Saffer, Henry; Grossman, Michael - 2020
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in...
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Alcohol and the Public Purse : Do Drinkers Pay Their Way?
Snowdon, Christopher - 2021
Drinkers subsidise non-drinkers by £6.5bn each yearThis study estimates the direct costs of alcohol use to the government in England, including the NHS, police, criminal justice system and welfare system. Taken together, they amount to a gross cost of £3.9 billion per annum (in 2015...
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