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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Cigarette Taxation: Background<br />

Since 1975, close to 200 state tax changes → natural experiments to<br />

investigate tax incidence<br />

Note that over the last 50 years, many increases in taxes but real tax<br />

flat because of inflation erosion<br />

Controversial commodity due to health and paternalism concerns<br />

Policy question: How do tax increases affect prices?<br />

money from cigarette companies?<br />

Do they take<br />

<strong>Part</strong>ial equilibrium is a plausible approximation for cigarettes → good<br />

example with which to start<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 2: Tax Incidence 42 / 142

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