Distributional Impacts of Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9712221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurent Muller (0000-0003-0840-5988, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Anne Lacroix (Oklahoma State University), Jayson L Lusk (0000-0002-4841-323X, University of Grenoble Alpes), Bernard Ruffieux (0000-0002-5991-2544, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 604 |
| Pages | 2066-2092 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12357 |
| OpenAlex | W2549341813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 42 |
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 higher income consumers. Unhealthy food taxes increase prices paid more for lower 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
Agriculture · Demographic economics · Economics · Food prices · Food security · Labour economics · Low income · Subsidy · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |