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Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism (2020)
Journal Article
Vaughan Williams, L., Garrett, T. A., & Paton, D. (2020). Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism. Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 13(2), 83-90. https://doi.org/10.5750/jgbe.v13i2.1870

Gambling machines are a key component of global gambling tourism. The taxation of these machines is a highly controversial area of policy debate involving tensions between industry profitability, economic growth and government revenue. We present the... Read More about Taxing Gambling Machines to Enhance Tourism.

Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue (2020)
Journal Article
Garrett, T. A., Paton, D., & Vaughan Williams, L. (2020). Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue. Kyklos, 73(4), 500-523. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12247

Electronic gambling (‘slot’) machines are a key component of the global gambling industry. We introduce a theoretical framework which shows that under reasonable assumptions, shifting from a per-machine licence fee to a gross profits tax (GPT) on ma... Read More about Taxing Gambling Machines To Enhance Public and Private Revenue.

The impact of sex education mandates on teenage pregnancy: International evidence (2020)
Journal Article
Soto, J., Paton, D., & Bullivant, S. (2020). The impact of sex education mandates on teenage pregnancy: International evidence. Health Economics, 29(7), 790-807. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4021

To date most studies of the impact of school-based sex education have focused either on specific, local interventions or experiences at a national level. In this paper we use a new cross-country dataset to explore the extent to which laws on sex edu... Read More about The impact of sex education mandates on teenage pregnancy: International evidence.