Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
generate revenue that governments can use to address the obesity-caused health and economic burden. Two beverage demand systems … were estimated using beverage purchase data for high-income and low-income households. Using the estimated demand … elasticities we examined the impacts of a hypothetical 20-percent effective tax rate (or about 0.5 cent per ounce) on beverage …