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Title: | Taxation of unhealthy consumption of food and drinks: An updated literature review |
Author: | Gil, Joan, 1966- López i Casasnovas, Guillem Mora Corral, Antoni J. |
Keywords: | Qualitat dels aliments Obesitat Indústria alimentària Calories dels aliments Economia de la salut Food quality Obesity Food industry Food calories Medical economics |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Instituto de Estudios Fiscales |
Abstract: | By means of a literature review this paper aims at shedding more light on the potentialities of unhealthy food/drink taxation in changing eating patterns and life styles and hence combating the obesity epidemic. One remarkable point that emerges when assessing the set of selected papers is the existence of a wide diversity of objectives, methodologies, settings and datasets, policies implemented and results achieved by all these studies, which undoubtedly adds complexity to any attempt to draw a general conclusion on fast food taxation. Most of the examined studies predict a rather modest fiscal impact on unhealthy food and drinks consumption and/or nutrition intake and consequently a poor result on weight loss and obesity, by the interplay of several factors among them the effects of cross-price elasticities. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.7866/HPE-RPE.13.4.5 |
It is part of: | Hacienda Pública Española, 2013, vol. 207, num. 4/2013, p. 117-138 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/65142 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7866/HPE-RPE.13.4.5 |
ISSN: | 0210-1173 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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