The aim was to conduct a systematic review of real‐world sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB)
tax evaluations and examine the overall impact on beverage purchases and dietary intake …

Metabolic syndrome, variously known also as syndrome X, insulin resistance, etc., is defined
by WHO as a pathologic condition characterized by abdominal obesity, insulin resistance …

Importance More than 45 countries and several local jurisdictions have implemented sugar-
sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes to improve nutrition and population health, and evidence …

Background Taxes on alcohol and tobacco have long been an important means of raising
revenues for public spending in many countries but there is increasing interest in using …

This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …

Numerous US cities have recently enacted taxes on sweetened beverages. To examine the
effects of the beverage tax of 1.5 cents per ounce in Philadelphia, we surveyed adults and …

Abstract Difference-in-differences (DiD) estimators provide unbiased treatment effect
estimates when, in the absence of treatment, the average outcomes for the treated and …

Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised
controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for …

Introduction Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption through taxation is a
promising public health response to the obesity epidemic in the US This study quantifies the …

The food consumer plays an increasingly prominent role in shaping the food and farming
system. A better understanding of how public policies affect consumer choice and how those …