-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from various data resources. We provide strong evidence that the price gap … share of ad valorem tax in total excise tax leads to about a 4 to 5 percent increase in the price gap, with a smaller impact …

is some evidence of a slight reduction in adults' overall sugar consumption from sweetened beverages, with larger …

We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine …

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 …

or are considering taxes on energy-dense foods. Perhaps the most commonly-recommended policy is a tax on sugar …

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

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 … duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …