The effects of soft drink taxes on child and adolescent consumption and weight outcomes

Fletcher, Jason M.; Frisvold, David; Tefft, Nathan

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.09.005

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“…Nonetheless, substantial revenue generated from these smalls taxes could be used in educational programs leading to healthier food choices [23,62,65]. Even though taxing snacks and fast food has been advocated frequently, it is difficult to confirm the economic efficacy of such taxes without a clear understanding of the influence of tax on weight issues [23,59].…”

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“…Findings also suggest that lifestyle behaviours are culturally driven, so that individual self-image and social interactions could play a role in determining one's body weight [57]. In addition to differences among individuals, differences among places, in particularly ethnic composition, may be relevant to weight and health policy promotional efforts [58,59]. …”

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Individual, Social, Economic, and Environmental Model: A Paradigm Shift for Obesity Prevention

Amarasinghe

D’Souza

2012

ISRN Public Health

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Obesity has joined the list of "wicked problems" with associated implications for public health, food security, and the entire food supply chain. This paper examines the possible causes, consequences, and policy implications, especially important in an environment of shrinking budgets. The causes of obesity are multifaceted and involve complex interactions; hence any successful prevention and mitigation strategy should identify the key factors and interactions thereof. We propose a dynamic and integrated individual, social, economic and environmental model (ISEEM) to accomplish this. Within this framework, the optimal mix of economic incentives, better education, and land use planning emerge as key factors in obesity prevention and mitigation and the promotion of healthier, more sustainable communities. The use of the ISEEM framework, involving a combination of strategies targeted to specific circumstances of individual communities and localities, could address this wicked problem in an environment characterized by increasing conflicts among budgets, heuristics, and politics.

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Individual, Social, Economic, and Environmental Model: A Paradigm Shift for Obesity Prevention

Amarasinghe

D’Souza

2012

ISRN Public Health

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“…Other papers empiri-3 Alternatively, one can think of sexual relationships that may result in a sexually transmitted disease (STD). In such an application, xi could represent condom use in a current or previous sexual encounter, frequency of past unprotected and/or protected sexual encounters, testing for STDs, etc. cally investigate phenomena related to workplace safety (e.g., Lanoie (1992)), sports (e.g., Potter (2011) on formula 1 racing and McCannon (2011) on basketball), food safety (e.g., Miljkovic (2011), et al), and even policies aimed to foster healthy living choices (e.g., substitution between taxed soft drinks such as sodas, and other high calorie drinks (Fletcher, et al (2010)). …”

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The value of technology improvements in games with externalities: A fresh look at offsetting behavior

Hoy

Polborn

2015

Journal of Public Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We model this problem as a symmetric game in which each player's payoff depends on his own action and the average action of the other players, and analyze under which conditions an improved technology increases or decreases both the level of precautionary activity and equilibrium utility of players. For mandatory safety technologies, the direction of the welfare effect depends on whether the externality between players is positive or negative, and on whether the improved technology increases the individually optimal activity level, taking the activity of other players as given. For safety technologies that individuals can choose whether to employ, we show that an individual will generally expend too much on reducing the size of loss but, depending on conditions that we specify, either too much or too little on features that reduce the individual's probability of loss. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…A study of the impact of taxes on non-alcoholic beverages in the United States found a substitution effect between soft drinks (excluding juices) and whole milk by children and adolescents, which made the effect of the taxes virtually neutral on calorie consumption in this age group (Fletcher et al, 2010). SSBs are also weak substitutes for low-fat milk (1% fat and skim milk) with a cross-price elasticity of 0.24 (Dharmasena and Capps, 2012).…”

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The Role of Fiscal Policies in Health Promotion

Sassi

Belloni

Capobianco

2013

OECD Health Working Papers

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The effects of soft drink taxes on child and adolescent consumption and weight outcomes

Cited by 286 publications

References 39 publications

Individual, Social, Economic, and Environmental Model: A Paradigm Shift for Obesity Prevention

Individual, Social, Economic, and Environmental Model: A Paradigm Shift for Obesity Prevention

The value of technology improvements in games with externalities: A fresh look at offsetting behavior

The Role of Fiscal Policies in Health Promotion

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