Estimating the impact of behaviour altering taxes on household consumption

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dc.contributor.authorXiang, Di
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeCardwell, Ryan (Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics) Troutt, Elizabeth (Economics) Bruneau, Joel (University of Saskatchewan)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorLawley, Chad (Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-16T18:31:17Z
dc.date.available2015-04-16T18:31:17Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-16
dc.degree.disciplineEconomicsen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
dc.description.abstractPeople respond to incentives—people make decisions by comparing the costs and benefits of a particular action. When either the costs or benefits change, behavior also changes. My dissertation focuses on estimating the impact of two different behaviour-altering taxes on household consumption. In the first section, I conduct an empirical examination of a hypothetical "fat tax" on household food consumption in Canada. The simulation results suggest that when fat tax revenues are recycled as lump-sum transfers to households, this policy would be the most efficient and progressive scenario from both economic and health perspectives. In the second section, I examine the impact of British Columbia's (BC) recently implemented carbon tax on household energy use from an aggregate perspective. I find no significant impact of the BC carbon tax on residential natural gas consumption. The third section is a further investigation of the BC carbon tax on household natural gas consumption varied by their environmental ideology. The results suggest that the impact of the carbon tax is more effective for non-environmentally conscious households than for other households.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2015en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/30404
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjecttax reformen_US
dc.subjectEASI demanden_US
dc.subjectcarbon taxen_US
dc.subjectnatural gasen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental ideologyen_US
dc.subjectsynthetic control methoden_US
dc.titleEstimating the impact of behaviour altering taxes on household consumptionen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
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