Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes

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Declining Discount Rates: The Long and the Short of it (2005, background): “Recent work on sin taxes by O’Donoghue and Rabin (2003) provides an example of this type of approach.”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “Or consider Cell G, in which there is a behavioural economic rationale for an intervention, but the type of intervention is of the traditional economic variety (see O’Donoghue & Rabin, 2003, 2006, for a discussion of this situation).”
Tax incidence when individuals are time-inconsistent: the case of cigarette excise taxes (2004, background): “More generally, as emphasized by O’Donoghue and Rabin (2003), the extra discount factor b that each self applies to the future is only relevant for that single self, so ignoring it when evaluating the agent’s overall welfare may be justified.”
Non-Welfarist Optimal Taxation and Behavioral Public Economics (2006, positive): “We can capture some of the arguments developed by O’Donoghue and Rabin (2003) in the present, general, framework.”
The value of time and external benefits in bicycle appraisal (2012, background): “A particularly relevant discussion is the literature on “sin taxes” (O’Donoghue & Rabin, 2006, 2003), where optimal policy rules are derived for situations where consumers do not have full information or self-control, and hence may act against their own best self-interest.”