#  Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior 

 





March 14, 2012

 

 

Erich Muehlegger, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, along with Assistant Professor [Shanjun Li](http://dyson.cornell.edu/people/profiles/li.php) of Cornell University and Resources for the Future Fellow, [Joshua Linn](http://www.rff.org/Researchers/Pages/ResearchersBio.aspx?ResearcherID=1812), have released a HEEP Discussion Paper detailing the effects of gasoline taxes on personal consumption and purchasing behavior. This paper was featured in [*The Washington Post*](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/as-gas-prices-soar-us-driving-habits-shift--but-slowly/2012/03/14/gIQAv0MCCS_blog.html), [*Harvard Gazette*](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/taxing-gasoline-how-consumer-behavior-is-affected/), and [*WGBH*](http://www.wgbh.org/articles/index.cfm?tempid=5708). Read the Discussion Paper [here](/file_url/146).



 

 

 



 

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