paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's weight problem (intensive margin), but does not induce the individual … other goods), which may render the tax on unhealthy food inferior to the option of not taxing the individual at all. In …

Rising prevalence of obesity among adults and children is a major policy issue in many countries. Two widely discussed … instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare … these two policies to a sales tax on all food products, taking into account the different opportunity costs in terms of time …

paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's weight problem (intensive margin), but does not induce the individual … other goods), which may render the tax on unhealthy food inferior to the option of not taxing the individual at all. In …