Sin Taxes: Do Heterogeneous Responses Undercut Their Value?

Padmaja Ayyagari, Partha Deb, Jason Fletcher, William T. Gallo, Jody L. Sindelar

NBER Working Paper No. 15124
Issued in July 2009

---- Acknowledgements ----

This work was supported by Grant Number RL1AA017542 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to Yale University and Grant Number R01AG027045 from the National Institute on Aging to Yale University. We gratefully acknowledge the alcohol price data that Michael French assembled and shared with us. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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