Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting … comparison group, to assess the causal impacts of the tax on multiple firm-level outcomes. We find a 6.8% average decrease in … domestic SSB sales, vis-à-vis bottled water. The soda tax hindered SSB firms' financial health, namely net income, ability to …

sugar intake. This research is the first to get closer to the aim of the policy by evaluating the effect of the soda tax … sugar densities across beverages, this setting provides information about how a tax levied at volume, rather than sugar … content, affects demand for taxable items. I develop a theoretical model that accounts for how a tax such as the one in …

effect of an SSB tax on the consumption and BMI of youth in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, which we compare … to Maldives, another island nation in the Indian Ocean which did not implement an SSB tax during the time of our data …. Results of difference-in-differences models indicate that the tax in Mauritius had no detectable impact on the consumption of …