Tobacco regulation has been a major component of health policy in the developed world
since the UK Royal College of Physicians' and the US Surgeon General's reports in the …

This article provides an overview of the application of behavioral public economics to energy
efficiency. I document policy makers' arguments for “paternalistic” energy efficiency policies …

We designed and tested a voluntary commitment product to help smokers quit smoking. The
product (CARES) offered smokers a savings account in which they deposit funds for six …

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy
costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality …

We investigate “sin taxes” on unhealthy items, such as fatty foods, that people may (by their
own reckoning) consume too much of. We employ a standard optimal-taxation framework …

In standard contract-theoretic models, the underlying assumption is that agent types differ in
their preference or cost parameters, and the principal's objective is to design contracts in …

Public economics has positive and normative objectives; it aims both to describe the effects
of public policies and to evaluate them. This agenda requires us to formulate models of …

We investigate the effects of opioid abuse on municipal finance. We employ instrumental
variables, border discontinuity difference-in-differences regressions, and coarsened exact …

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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have recently received considerable attention as a
potentially innovative and effective approach to the prevention of HIV/AIDS. We evaluate a …