Distributional impacts of fat taxes and thin subsidies Laurent Muller ... [et al.]
Contributor(s): Muller, Laurent
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ArticlePublisher: 2017Subject(s): ALIMENTOS | OBESIDAD | IMPUESTOS | PRECIOS | GASTOS FISCALES | FRANCIA
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The economic journal v. 127, n. 604, September 2017, p. 2066-2092Summary: We conducted an experiment to study the fiscal impacts of unhealthy food taxes and healthy foodsubsidies on very low and medium income women in France. The policies tend to be regressive andfavour higher income consumers. Unhealthy food taxes increase prices paid more for lower thanhigher income women. Healthy food subsidies reduce the prices paid more for higher than lowerincome 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 pricechanges.
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We conducted an experiment to study the fiscal impacts of unhealthy food taxes and healthy foodsubsidies on very low and medium income women in France. The policies tend to be regressive andfavour higher income consumers. Unhealthy food taxes increase prices paid more for lower thanhigher income women. Healthy food subsidies reduce the prices paid more for higher than lowerincome 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 pricechanges.
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