Combined fiscal policies to promote healthier diets: Effects on purchases and consumer welfare

JC Caro, P Valizadeh, A Correa, A Silva, SW Ng - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Taxes on unhealthy foods and sweetened beverages, as well as subsidies to healthy foods,
have become increasingly popular strategies to curb obesity and related non-communicable …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a food tax to impact food-related non-communicable diseases: the case of Chile

JC Caro, L Smith-Taillie, SW Ng, B Popkin - Food Policy, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The global shift towards diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and energy dense
ultra-processed foods is linked to higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes and most other …

Designing a tax to discourage unhealthy food and beverage purchases: The case of Chile

JC Caro, SW Ng, LS Taillie, BM Popkin - Food Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The global shift towards diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and energy dense
ultra-processed foods is linked to higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes and most other non …

The effects of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages in Ecuador: An analysis across different income and consumption groups

J Segovia, M Orellana, JP Sarmiento, D Carchi - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
To analyze the effects of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Ecuador, this study
estimates a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model using data from the 2011–2012 …

The effectiveness of sin food taxes: evidence from Mexico

A Aguilar, E Gutierrez, E Seira - Journal of Health Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We measure the effect of a large nationwide tax reform on sugar-added drinks and caloric-
dense food introduced in Mexico in 2014. Using scanner data containing weekly purchases …

First-year evaluation of Mexico's tax on nonessential energy-dense foods: an observational study

C Batis, JA Rivera, BM Popkin, LS Taillie - PLoS medicine, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background In an effort to prevent continued increases in obesity and diabetes, in January
2014, the Mexican government implemented an 8% tax on nonessential foods with energy …

Simulating international tax designs on sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico

JC Salgado Hernández, SW Ng - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In response to the high prevalence of overweight and obesity, Mexico implemented a
volumetric tax of one Mexican peso (MP) per liter of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) in …

Do high vs. low purchasers respond differently to a nonessential energy-dense food tax? Two-year evaluation of Mexico's 8% nonessential food tax

LS Taillie, JA Rivera, BM Popkin, C Batis - Preventive medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
It is unclear whether response to a nonessential food tax varies across time or for high vs.
low-consuming households. The objective is to examine whether the effect of Mexico's 2014 …

Do taxes on groceries increase body weight and restaurant food expenditures? Theory and evidence from the PSID data

L Wang, Y Zheng, HM Kaiser - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the impacts of grocery food sales taxes on body weight, grocery food
expenditures, and restaurant food expenditures from both a theoretical and empirical …

The impacts on food purchases and tax revenues of a tax based on Chile's nutrient profiling model

MA Colchero, G Paraje, BM Popkin - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background In June 2016, Chile implemented the Law of Food Labelling and Advertising,
which included a mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on food and beverages high in …