Journal article
CAN SOFT DRINK TAXES REDUCE POPULATION WEIGHT?
Contemporary economic policy, Vol.28(1), pp.23-35
01/01/2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00182.x
PMCID: PMC2908024
PMID: 20657817
Abstract
Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing rates of obesity in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks using excise taxes, sales taxes, or special exceptions to food exemptions from sales taxes to reduce consumption of this product, raise revenue, and improve public health. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of changes in state soft drink taxes on body mass index (BMI), obesity, and overweight. Our results suggest that soft drink taxes influence BMI, but that the impact is small in magnitude.(JEL I18, H75).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- CAN SOFT DRINK TAXES REDUCE POPULATION WEIGHT?
- Creators
- Jason M. Fletcher - Yale UniversityDavid Frisvold - Emory UniversityNathan Tefft - Bates College
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Contemporary economic policy, Vol.28(1), pp.23-35
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00182.x
- PMID
- 20657817
- PMCID
- PMC2908024
- NLM abbreviation
- Contemp Econ Policy
- ISSN
- 1074-3529
- eISSN
- 1465-7287
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- T32MH018029 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 MH018029; T32 MH018029-23 / NIMH NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283577102771
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