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A sales tax is better at promoting healthy diets than the fat tax and the thin subsidy

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2016

instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare …Rising prevalence of obesity among adults and children is a major policy issue in many countries. Two widely discussed … for healthy and unhealthy meals. We show that the policy which reduces obesity under the most general conditions is the …

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Paternalistic taxation of unhealthy food and the intensive versus extensive margin of obesity

Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2018

to choose healthy weight (extensive margin). Implementing healthy weight requires a further distortion (e.g. subsidy on …

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Paternalistic Taxation of Unhealthy Food and the Intensive Versus Extensive Margin of Obesity

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2018

to choose healthy weight (extensive margin). Implementing healthy weight requires a further distortion (e.g. subsidy on …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

subsidy on the healthy good. This earmarking rule is determined at a constitutional stage to maximize utilitarian or Rawlsian … fat tax. Instead, it may involve a tradeoff between the fat tax and the healthy good subsidy. …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015 - Rev. August 2015

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Risk Perception, Learning and Willingness to Pay to Reduce Heart Disease Risks

Dickie, Mark - 2020

The paper investigates the validity of individuals' perceptions of heart disease risks, and examines how information and risk perceptions affect marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) to reduce risk, using data from a stated preference survey. Results indicate that risk perceptions individuals held...

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The Genuine Savings Criterion and the Value of Population in an Economy with Endogenous Fertility Rate

Arrow, Kenneth J.; Bensoussan, Alain; Feng, Qi; Sethi, … - 2014

We study an economy in which the rate of change of population depends on population policy decisions. This requires population as well as capital as state variables. By showing the algebraic relationship between the shadow price of the population and the shadow price of the per capita capital...

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Parental Altruism and Child Lead Exposure : Inferences from the Demand for Chelation Therapy

Agee, Mark D.; Crocker, Thomas D. - 2008

We use parents' decisions to treat their children's body burdens of lead to infer parental ex ante willingness to pay for reduced burdens. Willingness to pay is estimated with a data set containing 256 observations: the data were originally gathered to assess the impact of children's bodylead...

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Ashes to ashes, time to time : parental time discounting and its role in the intergenerational transmission of smoking

Hübler, Philipp; Kucher, Andreas - 2016

Intergenerational correlations of risky health behaviors such as tobacco consumption are well established. However, there is still limited empirical evidence about the underlying process through which the transmission is driven. This paper aims at analyzing parental time discounting and its role...

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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2018

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...

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