Distributional Impacts of Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies

Laurent Muller (), Anne Lacroix, Jayson Lusk and Bernard Ruffieux
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Laurent Muller: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]
Bernard Ruffieux: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: We conducted an experiment to study the fiscal impacts of unhealthy food taxes and healthy food subsidies on very low and medium income women in France. The policies tend to be regressive and favour the higher income consumers. Unhealthy food taxes increase prices paid more for low than higher income women. Healthy food subsidies reduce the prices paid more for higher than lower income women. The effects arise because the pre-policy diets of the higher income women tend to be healthier but also because the choices of the higher income women are more responsive to price changes.

Keywords: sugar-sweetened beverages; soft drink taxes; body-mass-index; united-states; weight outcomes; public-health; demand system; diet quality; food price; obesity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-09
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Published in The Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), pp.2066 - 2092. ⟨10.1111/ecoj.12357⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12357

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