Combined fiscal policies to promote healthier diets: Effects on purchases and consumer welfare.

Taxes on unhealthy foods and sweetened beverages, as well as subsidies to healthy foods, have become increasingly popular strategies to curb obesity and related non-communicable diseases. The existing evidence on the welfare effects of such fiscal policies is mixed and almost uniquely focused on tax...

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Main Authors: Juan Carlos Caro, Pourya Valizadeh, Alejandrina Correa, Andres Silva, Shu Wen Ng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226731