In 2014, México imposed a 20% price hike on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) to curb its obesity epidemic, paving the road for other Latin-American countries adopt similar measures. This paper estimates beverage demand system with censored Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand system. Our study finds that tax SSB can reduce consumption between 16.6% and 19.0%. Additionally, increase is associated increa...

Objective: To identify the factors affecting demand for berries in Mexican households, as well behavior face of variations economic income. Design/Methodology/Approach: In order to analyze demand, microdata were used from National Income-Expenditure Survey Households 2018 (Encuesta Nacional Ingreso Gasto de los Hogares, ENIGH) Institute Statistics and Geography (Instituto Estadística, Geografía...

BACKGROUND Chile is the second world's largest per capita consumer of caloric beverages. Caloric beverages are associated with overweight, obesity and other chronic diseases. The objective of this study is to estimate the price elasticity of demand for soft drinks, other sugar-sweetened beverages and high-energy dense foods in urban areas in Chile in order to evaluate the potential response of ...

This article considers interaction among participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP), food security status, and the composition of food expenditures. A quadratic almost ideal demand system with a bootstrapping two-step method of estimation is applied to data from the Current Population Survey–Food Security Supplement data and used to estimate the model and account for endogeneity between the ...