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 …

Background The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which can lead to
weight gain, is rising in middle-income countries (MICs). Taxing SSBs may help address this …

A common objection to “sin taxes”—corrective taxes on goods that are thought to be
overconsumed, such as cigarettes, alcohol, and sugary drinks—is that they often fall …

The authors analyze the impact of a tax on sweetened beverages using a unique data set of
prices, quantities sold, and nutritional information across several thousand taxed and …

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. We assess who is most impacted
by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go …

Based on an original data set of more than 500,000 non-alcoholic beverage price records,
we evaluate the impact on consumer prices of the 'soda tax', an excise on drinks with added …

In this chapter we present empirical models of demand and supply in differentiated products
industries with an emphasis on the key ideas arising from the recent applied literature. We …

The adoption of barcode scanning technology in the 1970s gave rise to a new form of data:
scanner data. Soon afterwards, researchers began using this new resource, and since then …

This paper evaluates the price and consumption effects of the first municipal soda tax
imposed in the United States. Using high-resolution scanner data and data-driven …

We study two beverage taxes: the SSB tax of 1¢/oz in the city of Berkeley (in effect since
2015) and the temporary 2010 soda tax of 0.166¢/oz in Washington State. Using detailed …