How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?
How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?
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DOI：
10.1257/aer.20171898
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发表时间：
2020-11-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
O'Connell, Martin
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作者：
Dubois, Pierre;Griffith, Rachel;O'Connell, Martin
苏打税旨在减少过度的糖消费。我们评估谁受苏打税的影响最大。我们估计需求使用微观纵向数据涵盖在去购买，并利用面板尺寸来估计个人特定的偏好。我们将这些偏好和反事实预测与个人特征相关联，并表明苏打水税在针对年轻人的糖摄入量方面相对有效，在针对高膳食总糖摄入量方面不太成功，并且不太可能强烈回归，特别是如果消费者受益于避免的内在性。
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 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.