Changes in Prices After an Excise Tax to Sweetened Sugar Beverages Was Implemented in Mexico: Evidence from Urban Areas.

In 2014 an excise tax to non-alcoholic sweetened beverages (SSB) was implemented in Mexico. The objective of this paper is to study whether and to what degree these taxes passed-through onto SSB prices in urban areas overall and by region, type of beverage and package size. Prices were obtained from...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: M Arantxa Colchero, Juan Carlos Salgado, Mishel Unar-Munguía, Mariana Molina, Shuwen Ng, Juan Angel Rivera-Dommarco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0144408&type=printable