Consumption responses to sweetened beverage taxes by household income in four U.S. cities.

ABSTRACT: Taxes on sweetened beverages have become an important policy response to growing obesity rates and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the U.S. and other nations. Since 2015, eight U.S. cities have implemented these taxes, but so far direct evidence of their impacts on household purchasing behavior is scarce. Of particular interest to many researchers and policy makers is the response of lower-income consumers to these taxes, both because they have higher sweetened beverage consumption on average and because of concerns that sweetened beverage taxes are regressive. This project investigates the income-stratified household response to SSB taxes using a data set containing the purchasing behavior of approximately 400 households in the cities of Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, and Philadelp

SUBMITTER: Knox MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11646073 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature