Food Prices, Taxes and Obesity in Canada and its Implication for Food Taxation
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2019-1-002" target="_blank" >https://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2019-1-002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2019-1-002" target="_blank" >10.15240/tul/001/2019-1-002</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Food Prices, Taxes and Obesity in Canada and its Implication for Food Taxation
Original language description
An important health financing issue facing Canada and other OECD countries are the health consequences of obesity. Food group prices can be used to estimate the model if one is interested in a reduced form model of the determinants of obesity and nutrient prices should be used if one is interested in estimating a structural model of obesity that is more amenable to interpretation for policy purposes. The goal of the study is to introduce new nutrient price model and shows its superiority of food group model based on Canadian data Using available data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, food group prices, and constructed nutrient indexes, we confirm the superior performance of variations in nutrient prices compared to variations in food group prices to explain variations in the body mass index (BMI) of Canadians. Results for nutrients indicate that taxing fat and carbohydrates and subsidizing protein would reduce BMI. The implicit tax on fat from dairy supply management is one of the only nutri
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
E+M Ekonomie a Management
ISSN
1212-3609
e-ISSN
2336-5064
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
22-35
UT code for WoS article
000461177700002
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