- Date
- Tuesday 11 Jun 2019, 11:00 - 12:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 2-04
- Building
- Polak Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
In the past ten years in the U.S., numerous cities have enacted taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), such as soda pop. In this presentation John Cawley describes the results of a multi-city project studying the effects of these taxes in three cities using store audits of prices, street intercept interviews, and phone surveys.
The impact of the taxes on retail prices (i.e. the pass-through of the taxes), purchases, cross-border shopping (i.e. tax avoidance), and consumption will be described. These results help inform our understanding of such taxes, which have been recently implemented by dozens of countries around the world.Â
Field: Empirical Microeconomics