Professor of Economics, University of Manchester
Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Editor, Journal of Political Economy
SIN TAXES
Taxes and other policies to reduce consumption of alcohol and sugar
Griffith, R., W. Jin and V. Lechene (2022) "The decline of home cooked food" Fiscal Studies 43:2, June 2022, 105-120
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Dubois, P., R. Griffith and M. O'Connell (2022) "The Use of Scanner Data for Economics Research" Annual Review of Economics Vol 14 (August) Download paper (requires login) [pdf (does not require login)]
Griffith, R. (2022) "Obesity, poverty and public policy" Economic Journal 132: 664, 1235 - 1258 Download paper watch my Presidential Lecture at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conferece 2021, here
Griffith, R., M. O'Connell and K. Smith (2022) "Price floors and externality correction" Economic Journal, 123: 646, 2273-2289
Dubois, P., R. Griffith and M. O'Connell (2020) "How well targeted are soda taxes?" American Economic Review, 110 (11), November 2020
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Cherchye, L. B. De Rock, R. Griffith, M. O'Connell, K. Smith and F. Vermeulen (2020) "A new year, a new you? Within-individual variation in food purchases" European Economic Review, 127 Download paper Read VoxEU
Griffith, R., M. O'Connell, K. Smith and R. Stroud (2020) "What's on the menu? policies to reduce young people's sugar consumption" Fiscal Studies, March 2020, 165-197 Download paper
Griffith, R., M. O'Connell and K. Smith (2019) "Tax design in the alcohol market" Journal of Public Economics, Vol 172, April 2019, 20-35
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Griffith, O'Connell and Smith (2018) "Corrective Taxation and Internalities from Food Consumption" CESifo Economic Studies, ifx018
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Dubois, Griffith and O'Connell (2018) "The effects of banning advertising in junk food markets" Review of Economic Studies, 85:1, 396 - 436
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Griffith, Nesheim and O'Connell (2018) "Income effects and the welfare consequences of tax in differentiated product oligopoly" Quantitative Economics 9, 305-341 Download paper
Griffith, Lluberas and Luhrmann (2016) "Gluttony and sloth: long-run changes in bodyweight, diet and labour market activity" Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(6), Dec 2016, pp 1253 - 1286
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Dubois, Griffith and Nevo (2014) "Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?" American Economic Review, 104(3), 832-867 Download paper