Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying; … - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 329-341
, we estimate income-segmented beverage demand systems to examine the potential effects of a SSB tax. Elasticity estimates … and a hypothetical 20 percent effective tax rate (or about 0.5 cent per ounce) are applied to beverage intake data from a …, although it represents about 1 percent of household food and beverage spending. …