Probable Causation
Hosted by unknown · Jennifer Doleac
4.3from 174 ratings
- 167
- Episodes
- 26
- Transcribed
- 174
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Probable Causation
A show about law, economics, and crime. Hosted by Jennifer Doleac (https://jenniferdoleac.com), economist and author of The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250433435/thescienceofsecondchances/).
- Publisher
- Jennifer Doleac
- Category
- government · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
26 of 167 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 129: Johannes Kasinger on how retail crime affects prices
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 128: Diogo Britto on job loss and criminal behavior in Brazil
30 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 127: Manisha Shah on reducing intimate partner violence among young people in Tanzania
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Episode 129: Johannes Kasinger on how retail crime affects prices
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that then allows us to estimate the excess burden of this tax. It also allows us to estimate the welfare effects in general. And importantly, it also allows us to translate from the password rate that we estimated, like this 1.8% increase, to basically calculate the implied tax rate that these increase in prices imply in our model. And what we find is that These increase in prices are consistent with an increase of unit tax of around $0.28 per product, which is around 1% of the average unit price, which taking into account... This excess burden that we talked about implies a total annual welfare cost of around $30.7 million for the Washington state cannabis industry. […]
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- Johannes Kasinger
- Diogo Britto
- Juan Vargas
- Steeve Marchand
- Nour Abdul-Razzak
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 140 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100
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- Quality
- 58
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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