Viewpoint: Soda taxes – Four questions economists need to address

Laura Cornelsen ORCID logo; Richard D Smith; (2017) Viewpoint: Soda taxes – Four questions economists need to address. Food policy, 74. pp. 138-142. ISSN 0306-9192 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.12.003
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The popularity of soda taxes as a public health policy has grown rapidly in the last few years. While the evidence that the tax works in reducing the purchases of soda is emerging, there are a number of questions that are yet to be answered before the broader effectiveness of this measure can be determined. Beyond health effects, there is more specifically a need to better understand the economic mechanisms of change, redistributive effects, as well as causal and spillover effects in food systems and economy more broadly.


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