Kalamov, Zarko - In: Health Economics 29 (2020) 3, pp. 353-366
We analyze how a sales tax levied on all food products impacts the consumption of healthy food, unhealthy food, and … obesity. The sales tax can stimulate the consumption of healthy meals by lowering the time costs of food preparation. Moreover …, the sales tax lowers obesity under more general conditions than a tax on unhealthy food (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy …