Taxes on sugar-sweetened Beverages: political economy, and effects on prices, purchases, and consumption

J Cawley, D Frisvold - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
In response to a rise in obesity and diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, countries
worldwide have sought ways to incentivize healthier diets. One of the most common recent …

The economics of malnutrition: Dietary transition and food system transformation

WA Masters, AB Finaret, SA Block - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid increases in food supplies have reduced global hunger, while rising burdens of diet-
related disease have made poor diet quality the leading cause of death and disability …

Longer-term impacts of the Oakland, California, sugar-sweetened beverage tax on prices and volume sold at two-years post-tax

J Leider, LM Powell - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is associated with obesity and
independently associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Not only is …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of changes in prices and purchases following implementation of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes across the US

S Kaplan, JS White, KA Madsen, S Basu… - JAMA Health …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes are promoted as key policies to reduce
cardiometabolic diseases and other conditions, but comprehensive analyses of SSB taxes in …

Do obese and nonobese consumers respond differently to price changes? Implications of preference heterogeneity for obesity‐oriented food taxes and subsidies

C Zhen, Y Chen, BH Lin, S Karns… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Preference heterogeneity in food demand has important health and equity implications for
targeted and broad‐based taxes and subsidies intended to enhance diet quality and reduce …

Do sugar‐sweetened beverage taxes improve public health for high school aged adolescents?

J Flynn - Health Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sugar‐sweetened beverage taxes have become an increasingly popular policy to combat
the worldwide obesity epidemic, but relatively little is known about their impact on health …

Does a Spoonful of sugar levy help the calories go down? an analysis of the UK soft drinks industry levy

A Dickson, M Gehrsitz, J Kemp - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
This study evaluates the effects of the 2018 UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. We combine novel
electronic point of sale data with longitudinal nutritional information and a variety of event …

Public health lessons from the French 2012 soda tax and insights on the modifications enacted in 2018

Y Le Bodo, F Etilé, C Julia, M Friant-Perrot, E Breton… - Health policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2016, the World Health Organization officially recommended sugar-sweetened
beverage (SSB) taxation as a strategy to reduce purchases, stimulate product reformulation …

Soda taxes and marketing conduct

KO Keller, JY Guyt, R Grewal - Journal of Marketing …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Soda taxes are an increasingly popular policy tool that discourages purchases of sugar-
sweetened beverages. This study analyzes how emphasis on marketing conduct elements …

The economics of food related policies: Considering public health and malnutrition

V Caputo, DR Just - Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
While hunger and micronutrient deficiencies remain a persistent problem affecting millions
worldwide, obesity has also become a global epidemic. Despite an on-going debate …