{"id":399,"date":"2020-09-01T08:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T08:22:26","slug":"regressive-sin-taxes-with-an-application-to-the-optimal-soda-tax-with-dmitry-taubinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/regressive-sin-taxes-with-an-application-to-the-optimal-soda-tax-with-dmitry-taubinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Regressive Sin Taxes with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax with Dmitry Taubinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Regressive Sin Taxes with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax with Dmitry Taubinsky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/za6q3-f81b81?from=usersite&amp;skin=1&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In this episode, we talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmitrytaubinsky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dmitry Taubinsky<\/strong><\/a> from the University of California Berkeley about his paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/qje\/article-abstract\/134\/3\/1557\/5499049?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax<\/a>,&#8221; which he co-authored with Hunt Allcott and Benjamin B. Lockwood. This paper develops a theoretical model of an optimal &#8220;sin tax&#8221; i.e., a tax on goods that are considered harmful to consume. The theoretical framework is then applied to estimate the optimal soda tax.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we talk to Dmitry Taubinsky from the University of California Berkeley about his paper &#8220;Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax,&#8221; which he co-authored with Hunt Allcott and Benjamin B. Lockwood. This paper develops a theoretical model of an optimal &#8220;sin tax&#8221; i.e., a tax on goods that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/regressive-sin-taxes-with-an-application-to-the-optimal-soda-tax-with-dmitry-taubinsky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regressive Sin Taxes with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax with Dmitry Taubinsky<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bsuncovered.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}