Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are relatively new and there is little evidence about their impact on SSB …

), our calculations imply that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are welfare enhancing, and indeed that the optimal nationwide …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 …

evidence about the effects of these taxes on purchases and consumption. In this paper, we examine the effects of the beverage … 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 …

Several cities in the U.S. have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in an attempt to improve public … exiting the stores, and (3) a follow-up household survey of adults and child beverage purchases and consumption. We use a …

Since 2017, many U.S. cities have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) to decrease consumption of … adjacent to the treatment cities; or 2) a matched set of households nationally. We find that an increase in the beverage tax …

school children (Grade 5). Exposure to 100 incremental TV ads for sugar-sweetened carbonated soft drinks during 2002-2004 was …

There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …