Arbeitspapier
Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Externalities in the Parental Choice of Children's Diet
This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children’s diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on unhealthy food is strictly positive. However, it is only second best since it not only reduces food consumption of the child but also distorts the parent's food consumption. Surprisingly, the optimal tax may under- or overinternalize the marginal damage.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7837
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Theory
Externalities
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Health Behavior
- Thema
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obesity
fat tax
altruism
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kalamov, Zarko
Runkel, Marco
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kalamov, Zarko
- Runkel, Marco
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2019