Code for: How well targeted are soda taxes?

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics; Rachel Griffith, University of Manchester; Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies

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Project Citation:

Dubois, Pierre, Griffith, Rachel, and O’Connell, Martin. Code for: How well targeted are soda taxes? Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-02-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120232V2

Project Description

Summary: Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. We assess who are most impacted by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go purchases, and exploit the panel dimension to estimate individual specific preferences. We relate these preferences and counterfactual predictions to individual characteristics and show that soda taxes are relatively effective at targeting the sugar intake of the young, are less successful at targeting the intake of those with high total dietary sugar, and are unlikely to be strongly regressive especially if consumers benefit from averted internalities.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Scanner data; Household panel

JEL Classification:
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      H31 Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

Geographic Coverage: United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland)

Time Period(s): 6/1/2009 – 12/28/2014

Data Type(s): program source code

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V2 [2022-02-23]

V1 [2020-10-26]

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