Taxing Snack Foods: Manipulating Diet Quality or Financing Information Programs?

By F. Kuchler, A. Tegene, J. M. Harris. 2005

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Big Data in Agriculture: A Challenge for the Future (2018, methodology): “Real-time store scanner data can be used to study healthy diets (Kuchler, Tegene, and Harris 2005).”
Optimal Sin Taxes (2006, unknown): “Kuchler, Tegene, and Harris (2005) use the AC Nielsen Homescan panel data — in which households scan their purchases at home — and estimate an elasticity for potato chips of −0.45.”
The Effects of a Fat Tax on French Households’ Purchases: A Nutritional Approach (2010, unknown): “…call into question the effectiveness of tax policies intended to alter nutritional intakes, as highlighted by Mytton et al. (2007) and Chouinard et al. (2007), and are consistent with the conclusions of Kuchler, Tegene, and Harris (2005) and Kuchler et al. (2005) for household food purchases.”
Did the junk food tax make the Hungarians eat healthier (2015, result): “However, these ndings are based on hypothetical interventions, have limited relevance for Hungary, and contradicting results have also been found by other authors (Kuchler et al. (2005)).”