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CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY
Volume 28, Issue 1, Pages 23-35Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00182.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [T32 MH018029, T32 MH018029-23] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [T32MH018029] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing rates of obesity in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks using excise taxes, sales taxes, or special exceptions to food exemptions from sales taxes to reduce consumption of this product, raise revenue, and improve public health. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of changes in state soft drink taxes on body mass index (BMI), obesity, and overweight. Our results suggest that soft drink taxes influence BMI, but that the impact is small in magnitude.(JEL I18, H75).
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