Journal article
The effects of soft drink taxes on child and adolescent consumption and weight outcomes
Journal of public economics, Vol.94(11-12), pp.967-974
12/01/2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.005
Abstract
Childhood and adolescent obesity is associated with serious adverse lifetime health consequences and its prevalence has increased rapidly. Soft drink consumption has also expanded rapidly, so much so that soft drinks are currently the largest single contributors to energy intake. In this paper, we investigate the potential for soft drink taxes to combat rising levels of child and adolescent obesity through a reduction in consumption. Our results, based on state soft drink sales and excise tax information between 1989 and 2006 and the National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey, suggest that soft drink taxation, as currently practiced in the United States, leads to a moderate reduction in soft drink consumption by children and adolescents. However, we show that this reduction in soda consumption is completely offset by increases in consumption of other high-calorie drinks. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The effects of soft drink taxes on child and adolescent consumption and weight outcomes
- Creators
- Jason M. Fletcher - Yale UniversityDavid E. Frisvold - Emory UniversityNathan Tefft - Bates College
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of public economics, Vol.94(11-12), pp.967-974
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.005
- ISSN
- 0047-2727
- eISSN
- 1879-2316
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Economics; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283731102771
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