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 …

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

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 …

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 …