Dharmasena, Senarath; Davis, George C.; Capps Jr., Oral - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages … carried out to ascertain stochastic partial and general equilibrium calorie, body weight and revenue effects of a tax on sugar-sweetened … simulations of calorie outcomes reveal that the calorie reduction due to tax on sugar-sweetened beverages is between 465 and 716 …