Dubois, Pierre, Griffith, Rachel and O'Connell, Martin (2017) How well targeted are soda taxes? TSE Working Paper, n. 17-868, Toulouse

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Abstract

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Policymakers highlight the young, particularly from poor backgrounds, and high sugar consumers as groups whose behavior they would most like to influence. There are also concerns about the policy being regressive. We assess who are most impacted by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go purchases, and exploit the panel dimension to estimate individual specific preferences. We relate these preferences and counterfactual predictions to individual characteristics and show that soda taxes are relatively effective at targeting the sugar intake of the young, are less successful at targeting the intake of those with high total dietary sugar, and are unlikely to be strongly regressive especially if consumers benefit from averted internalities.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: December 2017
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Uncontrolled Keywords: preference heterogeneity, discrete choice demand, pass-through, soda tax
JEL Classification: D12 - Consumer Economics - Empirical Analysis
H31 - Household
I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2018 08:01
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:57
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:32251
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25775
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