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Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity

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  • Smith, Travis A.
  • Lin, Biing-Hwan
  • Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer

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High U.S. obesity rates have prompted calls for a tax on caloric sweetened beverages. Faced with such a tax, consumers are likely to substitute nontaxed beverages, such as bottled water, juice, and milk. A tax that increases the price of caloric sweetened beverages by 20 percent could cause an average reduction of 3.8 pounds of body weight over a year for adults and 4.5 pounds for children.

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  • Smith, Travis A. & Lin, Biing-Hwan & Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer, 2010. "Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:121894
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.121894
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    1. Jones-Smith, Jessica C. & Knox, Melissa A. & Coe, Norma B. & Walkinshaw, Lina P. & Schoof, John & Hamilton, Deven & Hurvitz, Philip M. & Krieger, James, 2022. "Sweetened beverage taxes: Economic benefits and costs according to household income," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    2. Miao, Zhen, 2012. "Three essays on tax policies addressing the obesity epidemic and associated calorie intake," ISU General Staff Papers 201201010800003415, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    3. Vardges Hovhannisyan & Christopher T. Bastian, 2023. "New insights into the structure of consumer preferences for natural and artificial sweeteners," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 105(5), pages 1491-1515, October.

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