energy inputs to production, heating and mobility have risen sharply as well as food prices. As a possible policy response to … these rising prices, the reduction of the VAT to zero on basic food is being discussed. In the debate many counter …

Recent proposals argue that a fast food tax may be an effective policy lever for reducing population weight. Although … there is growing evidence for a negative association between fast food prices and weight among adolescents, less is known … variation in fast food prices that, after controlling for household income, approximates a tax on fast food. In two-stage least …

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral … food choice, capturing a number of behaviors consistent with self-control problems, which provides direct evidence for the …

in tax rates. The context of our study is a sharp change in the VAT policy on food items in Norway. Using a regression … discontinuity design, we examine the direct impact of the policy change on the consumer prices of food items as well as any cross …-price effects on other goods. Our estimates suggest that taxes levied on food items are completely shifted to consumer prices …