HOW WELL TARGETED ARE SODA TAXES?

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• Pierre Dubois, Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
• Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00
• LT4, Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. Their effectiveness depends on whether they target individuals for whom the harm of consumption is largest. We estimate demand and account for supply-side equilibrium pass-through. We exploit longitudinal data to estimate individual preferences, which allows flexible heterogeneity that we relate to a wide array of individual characteristics. We show that soda taxes are effective at targeting young consumers but not individuals with high total dietary sugar; they impose the highest monetary cost on poorer individuals, but are unlikely to be strongly regressive if we account for averted future costs from over consumption.

This talk is part of the Economics & Policy Seminars, CJBS series.

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