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- Title
Food prices and obesity: evidence and policy implications for taxes and subsidies.
- Authors
Powell, Lisa M; Chaloupka, Frank J
- Abstract
Pricing policies have been posited as potential policy instruments to address the increasing prevalence of obesity. This article examines whether altering the cost of unhealthy, energy-dense foods, compared with healthy, less-dense foods through the use of fiscal pricing (tax or subsidy) policy instruments would, in fact, change food consumption patterns and overall diet enough to significantly reduce individuals' weight outcomes.
- Publication
The Milbank quarterly, 2009, Vol 87, Issue 1, p229
- ISSN
1468-0009
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0009.2009.00554.x