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International application of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation in obesity reduction: Factors that may influence policy effectiveness in country-specific contexts
Jou, Judy; Techakehakij, Win - In: Health Policy 107 (2012) 1, pp. 83-90
prevalence of obesity in many countries. Preliminary evidence indicates its potential to not only reduce obesity prevalence, but … that may influence the effectiveness of a volume-based soft drink excise tax: population obesity prevalence, soft drink … suggest that SSB or soft drink taxation policy may be more effective in reducing obesity prevalence where existing obesity …
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Immunity-Driven Comparative Advantage and Its Palliative Effect on Social Health and Inequality - A Theoretical Perspective
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022
We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177603
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Contact-Intensity, Collapsing Entertainment Sector and Wage Inequality: A Finite Change Model of Covid-19 Impact
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2021
In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658017
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Contact-intensity, collapsing entertainment sector and wage inequality : a finite change model of Covid-19 impact
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2021
In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624810
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Partially Right Means Generally Wrong : Why Some COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies Keep on Failing
Elm, Jan-Philip; Sarel, Roee - 2021
Why do some COVID-19 mitigation strategies fail? As the pandemic continues to spread, policymakers are struggling to find effective policies that lead to fewer infections at a reasonable cost. Although the elusive nature of the virus makes predictions difficult, the field of law and economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237380
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Contact-Intensity, Collapsing Entertainment Sector and Wage Inequality : A Finite Change Model of COVID-19 Impact
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga - 2021
In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211122
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Immunity-driven comparative advantage and its palliative effect on social health and inequality : a theoretical perspective
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2022
We propose a model of "trade" between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815825
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Immunity-Driven Comparative Advantage and its Palliative Effect on Social Health and Inequality - A Theoretical Perspective
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga - 2022
We propose a model of “trade” between high income and low-income groups where the rich being scared of the spread of infection hires the poor to engage them in exposure-intensive outdoor activities as workers in the household industry. People who endure hardships and sustain exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305658
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Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2019
This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103592
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Overweight and obesity in low- and middle income countries : a panel-data analysis
Minos, Dimitrios - 2016
The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422896