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Eat at Home or Away from Home? The Role of Grocery and Restaurant Food Sales Taxes

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  • Zheng, Yuqing
  • Dong, Diansheng
  • Burney, Shaheer
  • Kaiser, Harry M.
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Sales taxes on both grocery food and restaurant food exist in almost every county in the United States. By combining county level sales tax data with USDA’s recent national household food acquisition and purchase survey, we examine how a food sales tax affects consumers’ expenditures on grocery and restaurant food. We find that a grocery tax reduces consumers’ grocery food expenditures and increases restaurant food expenditure, which has further public health implication because the latter is generally considered to be less healthy. A restaurant food sales tax increases consumers’ grocery food expenditures. Such result provide insight into the potential impact of “fat” taxes on fast food restaurants. In addition, we find no differential impacts from food sales taxes based on consumers’ income, participation status in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or sharing borders with lower taxed counties. Finally, our results provide evidence that many consumers are attentive to food sales taxes even though the taxes are added at the register and are not salient.
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  • Zheng, Yuqing & Dong, Diansheng & Burney, Shaheer & Kaiser, Harry M., 2017. "Eat at Home or Away from Home? The Role of Grocery and Restaurant Food Sales Taxes," 2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois 258416, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea17:258416
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.258416
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    1. Arjun Gupta & Soudeh Mirghasemi & Mohammad Arshad Rahman, 2021. "Heterogeneity in food expenditure among US families: evidence from longitudinal quantile regression," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 56(1), pages 25-48, June.
    2. Diansheng Dong & Yuqing Zheng & Hayden Stewart, 2020. "The effects of food sales taxes on household food spending: An application of a censored cluster model," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(5), pages 669-684, September.
    3. Zheng, Yuqing & (Jason) Zhao, Jianqiang & Buck, Steven & Burney, Shaheer & Kaiser, Harry M. & Wilson, Norbert L., 2021. "Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    4. Lingxiao Wang & Yuqing Zheng & Steven Buck & Diansheng Dong & Harry M. Kaiser, 2021. "Grocery food taxes and U.S. county obesity and diabetes rates," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    5. Zhao, Jianqiang J. & Kaiser, Harry M. & Zheng, Yuqing, 2022. "Do grocery food taxes incentivize participation in SNAP?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    6. Wang, Lingxiao & Zheng, Yuqing, 2024. "Why are grocery foods taxed in the United States? Theory and spatial evidence from multilevel government interactions," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).

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