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A classroom game on a negative externality correcting tax: Revenue return, regressivity, and the double dividend

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  • Joshua M. Duke
  • David M. Sassoon

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The concept of negative externality is central to the teaching of environmental economics, but corrective taxes are almost always regressive. How exactly might governments return externality-correcting tax revenue to overcome regressivity and not alter marginal incentives? In addition, there is a desire to achieve a double dividend in the use of externality-correcting taxes, that is, to use the revenue to offset existing distortionary taxes, such as those on labor that produce a dead weight loss. In this article, the authors explain a classroom game that was developed for students to understand the theory of externalities, taxation dead weight loss, and regressivity. Then, the problem helps students explore the actual design of a policy that satisfies the double dividend hypothesis and corrects for regressivity.

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  • Joshua M. Duke & David M. Sassoon, 2017. "A classroom game on a negative externality correcting tax: Revenue return, regressivity, and the double dividend," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(2), pages 65-73, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:48:y:2017:i:2:p:65-73
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2017.1285736
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