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标题：The Political Economy of Soda Taxation
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作者：Sriparna Ghosh ; Joshua C. Hall
期刊名称：Economics Bulletin
电子版ISSN：1545-2921
出版年度：2018
卷号：38
期号：2
页码：1-8
出版社：Economics Bulletin
摘要：There has been an increase in the prevalence of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. The academic literature has highlighted numerous possible causes, including the consumption of soda and other sugarsweetened beverages. Soda taxes have been suggested as a way of reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and a number of U.S. states ``disfavor' sugar-sweetened beverages relative to food in their tax code. In this note we employ a political economy model to explain the adoption of these ``soda taxes.' We find that more Democratic states and those with a higher rate of adult obesity are more likely to have soda taxes and states with more convenience stores per capita are less likely to have adopted a tax. Our results inform future attempts to pass SSB taxes.