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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Soda Tax"”.
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Strategies for Chronic Disease Prevention in California: Focus on Research, Policy, and Coalition Building
… California: the BEST (Berkeley Evaluation of the Soda Tax) Study, the California Wellness Fund, and the Local School Wellness Collaborative Survey. These projects, which utilize strategies for effecting public health change such as research and evaluation, policy and policy advocacy, and coalition …
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National and state policies and the prevalence of adult obesity: A 30 year trend analysis in the United States
… literature on the effect of nutritional and taxation policies on obesity uses specific short timeframes or cross-sectional data. To fill the gaps in the literature, this study examines the association of national policies on nutritional guidelines, state taxes on soda, and state expenditures …
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Essays on Dynamic Demand Estimation
… of storable goods and their application to taxes that are imposed on soft drinks. Broadly speaking, the first chapter builds the estimation strategy for dynamic demand models of storable goods that allows for unobservable heterogeneous preferences in household's tastes. The second chapter …
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Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions
… chapter explores the level of pass-through for taxes on soft drinks.</p><p>In the first chapter I demonstrate that when dealing with online market places it is important to take into account the fact that multiple listings coexist. Traditionally, the economic literature has treated listings as …
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The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets
This study addresses the effects of the new tax on sweetened beverages, which has been gaining currency across the United States and beyond. I use evidence from a factorial survey to show how taxing a morally debated commodity influences people’s moral evaluations of consumption. I also …