Scott Kaplan
@skaplan92.bsky.social
applied microeconomist | health/food/nutrition, public, and labor | economics professor at the US Naval Academy | Berkeley ARE alum | #NBA and #Lakers | views my own
www.scottkaplan.org
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New #HealthAffairsForefront policy piece today on designing (more) effective sugar-sweetened beverage taxes. Sofia and I discuss tax avoidance behavior and designing taxes directly targeting the harm-generating ingredient.
healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/improve-sugar-sweetened-beverage-taxes
healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/improve-sugar-sweetened-beverage-taxes
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July 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New #HealthAffairsForefront policy piece today on designing (more) effective sugar-sweetened beverage taxes. Sofia and I discuss tax avoidance behavior and designing taxes directly targeting the harm-generating ingredient.
healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/improve-sugar-sweetened-beverage-taxes
healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/improve-sugar-sweetened-beverage-taxes
For those at #2024APPAM and interested in tax and other pricing policies for unhealthy products, there is a great lineup of presenters and discussants on Saturday at 10:15 in National Harbor 15. Hope to see you there (or around the conference in general)!
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
For those at #2024APPAM and interested in tax and other pricing policies for unhealthy products, there is a great lineup of presenters and discussants on Saturday at 10:15 in National Harbor 15. Hope to see you there (or around the conference in general)!
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November 18, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Excited to share @justinwhite.bsky.social and I’s latest working paper! “Taxing Volume, Targeting Sugar: A Framework and Empirical Assessment of Excise Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages."
Link to full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/151Cp...
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
Abstract 👇
Link to full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/151Cp...
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
Abstract 👇
November 7, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Excited to share @justinwhite.bsky.social and I’s latest working paper! “Taxing Volume, Targeting Sugar: A Framework and Empirical Assessment of Excise Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages."
Link to full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/151Cp...
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
Abstract 👇
Link to full paper: drive.google.com/file/d/151Cp...
Comments are welcome and appreciated.
Abstract 👇
Reposted by Scott Kaplan
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET.
Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk...
For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...
The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET.
Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk...
For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...
February 8, 2024 at 6:10 PM
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET.
Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk...
For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...
The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET.
Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk...
For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...
🚨 New paper published in JAMA Health Forum showing the broad effectiveness of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in the US! Co-authored with a great team: Justin White, Kristine Madsen, Sanjay Basu, Sofia Villas-Boas, and Dean Schillinger. 🚨
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Changes in Prices and Purchases Following Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes
Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.
jamanetwork.com
January 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
🚨 New paper published in JAMA Health Forum showing the broad effectiveness of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in the US! Co-authored with a great team: Justin White, Kristine Madsen, Sanjay Basu, Sofia Villas-Boas, and Dean Schillinger. 🚨
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Going to #ASSA2024 and interested in food & nutrition? Attend our AAEA-sponsored session titled "Evaluating the Medium- and Longer-Term Health and Economic Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes" featuring 3 excellent papers + discussants! Fri 12:30-2:15pm in Hyatt Mission B. #EconSky
January 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM