Higher Retail Prices of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages 3 Months After Implementation of an Excise Tax in Berkeley, California
Author(s) -
Jennifer Falbe,
Nadia Rojas,
Anna H. Grummon,
Kristine A. Madsen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2015.302881
Subject(s) - excise , fluid ounce (us) , confidence interval , sugar , agricultural economics , consumption (sociology) , economics , medicine , business , food science , chemistry , political science , law , macroeconomics , social science , sociology
We assessed the short-term ability to increase retail prices of the first US 1-cent-per-ounce excise tax on the distribution of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which was implemented in March 2015 by Berkeley, California.
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