Kalamov, Zarko - In: Health Economics 29 (2020) 3, pp. 353-366
obesity. The sales tax can stimulate the consumption of healthy meals by lowering the time costs of food preparation. Moreover …, the sales tax lowers obesity under more general conditions than a tax on unhealthy food (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy … counterproductive and increases weight. While both the sales tax and the fat tax mitigate obesity, the former imposes a lower excess …