1. Taxing animal-based foods for sustainability: environmental, nutritional and social perspectives in France
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France Caillavet, Adélaïde Fadhuile, Véronique Nichèle, Alimentation et sciences sociales (ALISS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble (GAEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), and Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
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0301 basic medicine ,Economics and Econometrics ,EASI demand system ,Index (economics) ,socioeconomic disparities ,politique des prix ,Agricultural economics ,alimentation durable ,03 medical and health sciences ,Consumption tax ,0302 clinical medicine ,Age groups ,Economics ,030212 general & internal medicine ,food sustainability ,Price policy ,2. Zero hunger ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,disparites socio-economiques ,Public economics ,Environmental tax ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Diet quality ,JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q1 - Agriculture/Q.Q1.Q18 - Agricultural Policy • Food Policy ,13. Climate action ,price policy ,Sustainability ,Social equality - Abstract
Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesJournal articles; International audience; This article examines the impact of a consumption tax on environmentally unfriendly animal-based foods. It focuses on three dimensions: environmental emissions, diet quality and social equity. Using scanner data, we derive elasticities from an Exact Affine Stone Index demand system and simulate two scenarios, one including and one excluding nutritional concerns. Our results show that an environmental tax may reduce emissions (by −6.6 to −13.2 per cent based on the indicators) and improve diet quality (1.2 per cent) with a modest impact on the food-at-home budget (−4.0 per cent). This beneficial synergy between environmental and nutritional effects holds across income and age groups, with a small regressive impact.
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- 2016