Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a … remarkable quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages, and the evidence suggests that this generates significant health costs …), our calculations imply that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are welfare enhancing, and indeed that the optimal nationwide …

We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine … that the tax was largely, but not completely, passed through to consumers 5-7 weeks after implementation. Some retailers …

Philadelphia and nearby comparison communities before the tax and nearly one year after implementation of the tax about their … is some evidence of a slight reduction in adults' overall sugar consumption from sweetened beverages, with larger …

This study uses county-level variation in implementation of calorie labeling laws in the US to identify the effects of … effect for men, indicating a decrease in BMI after implementation of calorie-labeling laws. We estimate finite mixture models …

or are considering taxes on energy-dense foods. Perhaps the most commonly-recommended policy is a tax on sugar …, 2014. We collected the prices of various brands and sizes of SSBs and other beverages before and after the implementation …

to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies 'sugar islands' from the year of slave …

duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …

light on why the United States supported (or failed to support) international commodity agreements for coffee, sugar, and …

We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults … more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation … accumulating above median wealth. We identified elevated sugar consumption across lifespan as a likely pathway of impact …