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Paternalistic taxation of unhealthy food and the intensive versus extensive margin of obesity
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2018
This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...
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Paternalistic Taxation of Unhealthy Food and the Intensive Versus Extensive Margin of Obesity
Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2018
This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920862
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The impact of taxes on healthy consumer habits
Turjak, Sofija; Raič, Mario; Unukić, Ivana - 2020
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The likely fiscal and public health effects of an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Kenya
Walbeek, C. P. van; Mthembu, Senzo - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013203014
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The effect of beverage taxes on youth consumption and body mass index : evidence from Mauritius
Cawley, John H.; Daly, Michael; Thornton, Rebecca L. - In: Health economics 31 (2022) 6, pp. 1033-1045
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Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2019
This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on...
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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries : a panel-data analysis
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422896
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"Eat, my child" - overweight and obesity among children in developing countries
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422908
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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link
Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper …. Conditional on having already lost some weight, a further reduction in obesity also increases the frequency of sexual intercourse. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282771
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Healthy vs. unhealthy food : a strategic choice for firms and consumers
Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez-Ibeas, Roberto - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-8
In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the strategic choice made by firms regarding the type of food they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health costs when the food they consume has unhealthy...
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