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In this Facebook Live event (as part of the 2019 ESRC Festival of Social Science), IFS Research Economist Rebekah Stroud looked at the economics of "sin taxes", answering questions such as how high or low should these taxes be, and who bears the burden of them?
You can download the slides here, and watch the video below.
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Rebekah Stroud
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- IFS
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Stroud, R. (2019). 'Designing taxes to discourage harmful behaviour' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/designing-taxes-discourage-harmful-behaviour (accessed: 6 May 2024).
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