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SUBMITTER: Hernandez-F M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322966 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hernández-F Mauricio M Batis Carolina C Rivera Juan A JA Colchero M Arantxa MA
Preventive medicine 20181001
In 2014, an 8% tax on energy-dense nutrient-poor foods was implemented in Mexico with the aim of reducing its consumption. This paper estimated changes in household purchases of taxed food. We used the latest five waves of the nationally representative Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016). The analytic sample comprises 154,777 households. We estimated changes in purchases based on a before and after comparison. Results show a reduction in purchases of taxed foo ...[more]