Background While food pricing is a promising strategy to improve diet, the prospective
impact of food pricing on diet has not been systematically quantified. Objective To quantify …

Several different socio-economic factors have caused a large portion of the population to
adopt unhealthy eating habits that can undermine healthcare systems, unless current trends …

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 is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact
of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the …

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 …

Taxes and subsidies are increasingly being considered as potential policy instruments to
incentivize consumers to improve their food and beverage consumption patterns and related …

Background Excess intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been shown to result
in weight gain. To address the growing epidemic of obesity, one option is to combine …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

Abstract The Global Burden of Disease Study and related studies report unhealthy diet is the
leading risk for death and disability globally. Given the evidence associating diet and non …