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Should We TaxSugar-SweetenedBeverages? AnOverview of Theoryand Evidence Hunt AllcottBenjamin LockwoodDmitry Taubinsky2019 год

Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
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Аннотация: Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a good idea? If so, how high should they be? Are such taxes regressive? People in the United States and some other countries consume remarkable quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages, and the evidence suggests that this generates significant health costs. Building on recent work, we review the basic economic principles that determine the socially optimal sugar-sweetened beverage tax. The optimal tax depends on (1) externalities, or uninternalized health system costs from diseases caused by sugary drink consumption; (2) internalities, or costs consumers impose on themselves by consuming too many sugary drinks due to poor nutrition knowledge and/or lack of self-control; and (3) regressivity, or how much the financial burden and the internality benefits from the tax fall on the poor. We summarize the empirical evidence about the key parameters that determine how large the tax should be. Our calculations suggest that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are welfare enhancing and indeed that the optimal sugar-sweetened beverage tax rate may be higher than the 1 cent per ounce rate most commonly used in US cities. We end with seven concrete suggestions for policymakers considering a sugar-sweetened beverage tax.
Год издания: 2019
Авторы: Hunt Allcott, Benjamin Lockwood, Dmitry Taubinsky
Издательство: American Economic Association
Источник: The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Ключевые слова: Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Другие ссылки: The Journal of Economic Perspectives (PDF)
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Library Union Catalog of Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg (B3Kat Repository) (PDF)
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (HTML)