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is some evidence of a slight reduction in adults' overall sugar consumption from sweetened beverages, with larger …
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We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine …
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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 …
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Obesity and diet-related chronic disease are increasing problems worldwide. In response, many governments have enacted … or are considering taxes on energy-dense foods. Perhaps the most commonly-recommended policy is a tax on sugar …
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to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands' from the year of slave …
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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 …
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This study uses county-level variation in implementation of calorie labeling laws in the US to identify the effects of such laws on body mass. Using the 2003 to 2012 waves of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find a statistically insignificant average treatment effect for women...
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This paper explores the idea that competitive seed systems may underserve farmers in small, agro-ecological niches, leaving those farmers less productive and poorer than they need be. We develop a theoretical model of the confluence of demand and supply factors that can result in such an...
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Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and natural resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of U.S. Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales where we estimate the model, and...
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A key rationale for fiscal stimulus is to boost consumption when aggregate demand is perceived to be inefficiently low. We examine the ability of the government to increase consumption by evaluating the impact of the 2009 "Cash for Clunkers" program on short and medium run auto purchases. Our...
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