Michael J Licari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Licari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Licari |
| SIGNATURE | LICARI M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Condition of Community Streets and Parks: A Comparison of Resident and Nonresident Evaluations
Practitioners and scholars are concerned that citizen surveys about community services are heavily influenced by respondents' opinions on other issues and by their sociodemographic backgrounds. We search for these biases by examining the extent to which citizen assessments of streets and parks in Iowa communities match the assessments of a nonresident. The citizens' ratings correlate significantly with the nonresident's ratings, indicating that c…
Taking on Tobacco: Policy Entrepreneurship and the Tobacco Litigation
The retrenchment of the federal government and the deregulation of many industries, beginning in the 1980s, afforded state elected officials opportunities for policy entrepreneurship. In particular, state attorneys general began to create policy The recent high profile tobacco litigation demonstrates the use of this oft-overlooked office for policy innovation. The legal effort initiated by the states against the tobacco industry sheds light on th…
Regulation and Signaling: When a Tax is not Just a Tax
Excise taxes are popular as regulatory policy. This popularity stems in part from their simple disincentive mechanism: higher prices mean less consumption of the regulated item. The size of the disincentive, however, may not be the whole story since governments rarely regulate without sending signals about why the regulation is necessary. This paper integrates signaling into a model designed to test the effectiveness of regulatory policies. By fo…
Meier and Licari Respond
Meier and Licari Respond Kenneth J. Meier, and Michael J. Licari M H ShowalterCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1120 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Regulatory Policy When Behavior Is Addictive: Smoking, Cigarette Taxes and Bootlegging
The effect of cigarette taxes on cigarette consumption, 1955 through 1994
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the effectiveness of state and federal taxes in reducing the consumption of cigarettes, estimates the impact of government health warnings, and shows how warnings and taxes interact. METHODS: By means of a pooled time-series analysis from 1955 through 1994 with the 50 states as units of analysis, the impact of excise taxes on cigarette consumption for several different models and econometric techniques is assessed.…
Regulatory Policy When Behavior is Addictive: Smoking, Cigarette Taxes and Bootlegging
Regulatory policy generally offers three policy instruments-command and control regulation, incentives, and information-yet efforts to test the comparative effectiveness of these instruments have been lacking. Using a simple theory derived from the economics of supply and demand, this study presents a hypothesis that information policies will interact with incentives and lessen their impact. If incentives policies are not uniform across the natio…
Taking on Tobacco: Policy Entrepreneurship and the Tobacco Litigation
The retrenchment of the federal government and the deregulation of many industries, beginning in the 1980s, afforded state elected officials opportunities for policy entrepreneurship. In particular, state attorneys general began to create policy The recent high profile tobacco litigation demonstrates the use of this oft-overlooked office for policy innovation. The legal effort initiated by the states against the tobacco industry sheds light on th…
The Condition of Community Streets and Parks: A Comparison of Resident and Nonresident Evaluations
Practitioners and scholars are concerned that citizen surveys about community services are heavily influenced by respondents' opinions on other issues and by their sociodemographic backgrounds. We search for these biases by examining the extent to which citizen assessments of streets and parks in Iowa communities match the assessments of a nonresident. The citizens' ratings correlate significantly with the nonresident's ratings, indicating that c…
The effect of cigarette taxes on cigarette consumption, 1955 through 1994
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the effectiveness of state and federal taxes in reducing the consumption of cigarettes, estimates the impact of government health warnings, and shows how warnings and taxes interact. METHODS: By means of a pooled time-series analysis from 1955 through 1994 with the 50 states as units of analysis, the impact of excise taxes on cigarette consumption for several different models and econometric techniques is assessed.…
Regulatory Policy When Behavior is Addictive: Smoking, Cigarette Taxes and Bootlegging
Regulatory policy generally offers three policy instruments-command and control regulation, incentives, and information-yet efforts to test the comparative effectiveness of these instruments have been lacking. Using a simple theory derived from the economics of supply and demand, this study presents a hypothesis that information policies will interact with incentives and lessen their impact. If incentives policies are not uniform across the natio…
Regulation and Signaling: When a Tax is not Just a Tax
Excise taxes are popular as regulatory policy. This popularity stems in part from their simple disincentive mechanism: higher prices mean less consumption of the regulated item. The size of the disincentive, however, may not be the whole story since governments rarely regulate without sending signals about why the regulation is necessary. This paper integrates signaling into a model designed to test the effectiveness of regulatory policies. By fo…
Regulatory Policy When Behavior Is Addictive: Smoking, Cigarette Taxes and Bootlegging
The effect of cigarette taxes on cigarette consumption, 1955 through 1994
OBJECTIVES: This study examines the effectiveness of state and federal taxes in reducing the consumption of cigarettes, estimates the impact of government health warnings, and shows how warnings and taxes interact. METHODS: By means of a pooled time-series analysis from 1955 through 1994 with the 50 states as units of analysis, the impact of excise taxes on cigarette consumption for several different models and econometric techniques is assessed.…
Regulatory Policy When Behavior is Addictive: Smoking, Cigarette Taxes and Bootlegging
Regulatory policy generally offers three policy instruments-command and control regulation, incentives, and information-yet efforts to test the comparative effectiveness of these instruments have been lacking. Using a simple theory derived from the economics of supply and demand, this study presents a hypothesis that information policies will interact with incentives and lessen their impact. If incentives policies are not uniform across the natio…
Meier and Licari Respond
Meier and Licari Respond Kenneth J. Meier, and Michael J. Licari M H ShowalterCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1120 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Regulation and Signaling: When a Tax is not Just a Tax
Excise taxes are popular as regulatory policy. This popularity stems in part from their simple disincentive mechanism: higher prices mean less consumption of the regulated item. The size of the disincentive, however, may not be the whole story since governments rarely regulate without sending signals about why the regulation is necessary. This paper integrates signaling into a model designed to test the effectiveness of regulatory policies. By fo…
Taking on Tobacco: Policy Entrepreneurship and the Tobacco Litigation
The retrenchment of the federal government and the deregulation of many industries, beginning in the 1980s, afforded state elected officials opportunities for policy entrepreneurship. In particular, state attorneys general began to create policy The recent high profile tobacco litigation demonstrates the use of this oft-overlooked office for policy innovation. The legal effort initiated by the states against the tobacco industry sheds light on th…
The Condition of Community Streets and Parks: A Comparison of Resident and Nonresident Evaluations
Practitioners and scholars are concerned that citizen surveys about community services are heavily influenced by respondents' opinions on other issues and by their sociodemographic backgrounds. We search for these biases by examining the extent to which citizen assessments of streets and parks in Iowa communities match the assessments of a nonresident. The citizens' ratings correlate significantly with the nonresident's ratings, indicating that c…
Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public economics (3 works) · Consumption (sociology (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Excise (2 works)