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Cigarette Taxes and Unintended Consequences

One of the best questions you can ask a social scientist is, “and then what?” Thinking about second-order effects is essential to smart research and policy-making. Research on the unintended consequences of cigarette taxes helps to illustrate this point: Besides … Continue reading

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Starting the Conversation on Addiction

One question that has fascinated students of behavior since well before the advent of contemporary social science concerns the nature of addiction. Is it natural (chemical/genetic) or behavioral? The answer to this question has important implications for both morality and … Continue reading

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