This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children … in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced …

This paper examines the effect of soda taxes on the consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe …: Hungary imposed a "Public Health Product Tax" on several unhealthy products including sodas in 2011. France introduced solely …

The focus of the present study is on consumer health information in relation to supplier induced demand (SID). We argue … new information measure based on questions of the Swiss Health Survey, we estimate a Poisson hurdle model for office … visits and the length of stay in hospitals. We find that information has a negative effect on health care utilization …

they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …

health systems. It then takes stock of current knowledge on the effectiveness of policy instruments to tackle unhealthy diets …

Digital tools and technologies can assist governments to improve consumer health and the sustainability of food systems …

This study estimates the causal effect of transportation subsidies or similar benefits on the health of the elderly. We … significantly improves elderly people’s health condition by approximately 10 percentage points. The results are robust under … different specifications and placebo tests. Further tests on possible channels show that the health effect is driven by …