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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7837

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Theory
Externalities
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Health Behavior
Thema
obesity
fat tax
altruism

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kalamov, Zarko
Runkel, Marco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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