In Mexico, evidence of sustained consumer response two years after implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax
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Mexico implemented a 1 peso per liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on January 1, 2014, and a previous study found a 6 percent reduction in purchases of taxed beverages in 2014. In this study we estimated changes in beverage purchases for 2014 and 2015. We used store purchase data for 6,645 households from January 2012 to December 2015. Changes in purchases of taxed and untaxed beverages in the study period were estimated using two models, which compared 2014 and 2015 purchases with predicted (counterfactual) purchases based on trends in 2012-13. Purchases of taxed beverages decreased 5.5 percent in 2014 and 9.7 percent in 2015, yielding an average reduction of 7.6 percent over the study period. Households at the lowest socioeconomic level had the largest decreases in purchases of taxed beverages in both years. Purchases of untaxed beverage increased 2.1 percent in the study period. Findings from Mexico may encourage other countries to use fiscal policies to reduce consumption of unhealthy beverages along with other interventions to reduce the burden of chronic disease.
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Voluntary agreements with industry to reduce sugar consumption have failed.
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- Authors
- Colchero, M. A., Rivera-Dommarco, J., Popkin, B. M., & Ng, S. W.
- Affiliations
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (MX)
- Juan Rivera-Dommarco is director of the Center for Research on Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ng, Shu Wen
- Venue
- Health Affairs
- Publisher
- Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 564-571
- ISSN
- 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-5208
- PMC
- PMC5442881
- OpenAlex
- W2589698749
- Cited by
- 679
- References
- 25
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- 2026: 43 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 98 · 2020: 95 · 2019: 92 · 2018: 86 · 2017: 34 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 152.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Health Affairs (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK108148)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050924)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Keywords
- sugar-sweetened beverage tax, excise tax, consumer response, beverage purchases, fiscal policy, socioeconomic disparities, Mexico, chronic disease prevention
- MeSH terms
- Sugars, Beverages, Commerce, Consumer Behavior, Family Characteristics, Humans, Mexico, Sweetening Agents, Taxes, Time Factors
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