Department of Policy Analysis and Management and Department of Economics, Cornell University and NBER, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Department of Economics, University of Iowa and NBER, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Health Econ. 2020 Oct;29(10):1289-1306. doi: 10.1002/hec.4141. Epub 2020 Jul 28.
Since 2017, many US cities have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to decrease consumption of sugary beverages and raise revenue. We analyze household receipt data to examine the impact of taxes on households' beverage purchases in the four largest US cities with such taxes: Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and Oakland, CA. We compare changes in monthly household purchases in the treatment cities with changes in two comparison groups: (1) areas adjacent to the treatment cities or (2) a matched set of households nationally. An increase in the tax rate of 1 cent per ounce decreases household purchases of taxed beverages by 53.0 ounces per month (12.2%). This impact is consistent with a reduction in individual consumption of 5 calories per day per household member and eventual reduction in weight of 0.5 pounds. However, the decline was concentrated in Philadelphia, where the tax decreased purchases by 27.7%. There was no change in purchases of taxed beverages in the other three cities combined.
自 2017 年以来,许多美国城市已对含糖饮料征税,以降低含糖饮料的消费并增加收入。我们分析了家庭收据数据,以研究四个征收此类税的美国最大城市(宾夕法尼亚州费城、加利福尼亚州旧金山、华盛顿州西雅图和加利福尼亚州奥克兰)的税收对家庭饮料购买的影响。我们比较了在治疗城市中每月家庭购买量的变化与两个对照组的变化:(1)治疗城市附近的地区,或(2)全国一组匹配的家庭。每盎司征税 1 美分的税率增加会使家庭购买的应税饮料每月减少 53.0 盎司(12.2%)。这一影响与每个家庭成员每天减少 5 卡路里的个人消费和最终减少 0.5 磅的体重一致。然而,这种下降主要集中在费城,那里的税收使购买量减少了 27.7%。其他三个城市的应税饮料购买量没有变化。