Optimal Sin Taxes

By Ted O’Donoghue, Matthew Rabin. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents (2020, unknown): “(JEL: D03, H21).”
On Behavioral-Environmental Economics (2008, background): “Another example is Aronsson and Thunström (2006), who construct an optimal tax-subsidy scheme for people who suffer from self-control problems that lead to obesity and poor health (also see the optimal sin tax discussion in O’Donoghue and Rabin 2006).”
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.”
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).”
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior (2016, background): “2015; Marinescu 2017), endogenous private insurance (Chetty and Saez 2010), or unhealthy consumption goods (O’Donoghue and Rabin 2006).”
Impatience, Incentives and Obesity (2015, unknown): “In a meta-analysis of experimental and eld studies on time preferences published from 1978-2002, Percoco and Nijkamp (2009) nd no evidence of changing time preferences.”
Exploiting Naïvete about Self-Control in the Credit Market (2010, background): “Hence, arguments by O’Donoghue and Rabin (2006) in favor of a long-run perspective apply: in deciding how to weight any particular week of a person’s life”