How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?

How well targeted are soda taxes?

Soda taxes aim to reduce externalities (including costs to the consumer themselves in the future) from excess sugar consumption. Their effectiveness depends on how consumers respond, and crucially how demand responsiveness correlates with marginal harm. We estimate demand using novel longitudinal data, which allows us to identify individual preference parameters. We study demand for drinks on-t...

Food Taxes: How Likely Are Likely Effects?

food taxes: how likely are likely effects?

How Effective are Emission Taxes

*Ishikawa: Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. Fax: 81-42-580-8195; E-mail: [email protected]. Kuroda: Nagoya Gakuin University, Seto, Aichi 480-1298, Japan. Phone: 81-561-42-0350; E-mail: [email protected]. We are grateful to an anonymous referee, seminar participants at Nagoya Gakuin University and RIETI and the participants of Kobe COE One-Day Conference on Labor M...

Food taxes: how likely are likely effects?

Citation: Devisch I. Food taxes: how likely are likely effects? International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2013; 1: 241. *Corresponding author: Ignaas Devisch; Email: [email protected] I want to thank Block and Willett (1) for their comments on my paper (2). Their remarks are substantial, thoughtful and they help us to discuss more profoundly one example of a food tax, the tax ...