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The Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Consumption, Calorie Intake, Obesity, and Tax Burden by Income
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
generate revenue that governments can use to address the obesity-caused health and economic burden. Two beverage demand systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446096
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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is thatchildren’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk … children, lowering the obesity rate from 16.1 percent to 13.4 percentand the overweight rate from 32 percent to 26.9 percent … intake (21calories a day) and increase their calcium intake, but the overweight and obesity rates wouldactually increase by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442764
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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
revenue to address obesity-related issues. A related concern is that children’s intake of SSBs, a third that of milk … a day among children, lowering the obesity rate from 16.1 percent to 13.4 percent and the overweight rate from 32 … decrease their calorie intake (21 calories a day) and increase their calcium intake, but the overweight and obesity rates would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368334
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The Effects of Prices, Advertising, Expenditures, and Demographics on Demand for Nonalcoholic Beverages
Okrent, Abigail M.; MacEwan, Joanna P. - Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics …
We estimate a demand system for ten nonalcoholic beverages to disentangle effects of prices, expenditures, advertising, and demographics on demand for nonalcoholic beverages for 1999 through 2010. We find that changes in demographic composition of the population between 1999 and 2008 played a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911082
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Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax?
Miao, Zhen; Beghin, John C.; Jensen, Helen H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020278
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THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF A FISCAL FOOD POLICY
Salois, Matthew J.; Tiffin, Richard - 2010
This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combinationof fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of fooditems while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetbale items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445849
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The Effect of a Multi-tiered Model for Reducing Obesity Risk Factors: Attitude and Behavior Change in a Rural Community
Thapa, Janani; Lyford, Conrad P.; Belasco, Eric J.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
While there is increasing interest in reducing obesity, relatively few of these efforts focus on rural communities. A … multi-tiered model to reduce obesity risk factors was developed and implemented to change food behavior and health awareness … increase in, a) obesity as cancer risk awareness and b) food nutrition awareness. Also, increased food nutrition awareness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880648
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THE DEMAND FOR FOOD QUALITY IN RUSSIA AND ITS LINKAGE TO OBESITY
Staudigel, Matthias - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
This study analyses whether Russian households differ in their choice of food quality when they differ in their number of overweight and obese members. Using survey data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for the years 1995-2005, households are classified into three weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368320
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THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF A FISCAL FOOD POLICY
Salois, Matthew J.; Tiffin, J. Richard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combination of fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of food items while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetable items. The policy is designed to be revenue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368325
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Observable and unobservable determinants of a healthy diet in Russia: A structural equation approach
Burggraf, Christine; Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010
The Russian Federation is facing crucial dietary problems which burden the health care sector to an increasing degree. In order to correct this trend explanations for the observed mostly unhealthy diets are needed. Therefore the main target of this study was to find evidence about the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368346