Food consumption, Advertising and Dynamics
Lead Research Organisation:
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Department Name: IFS Research Team
Abstract
The aim of the proposed research is to better understand individual behaviour in food markets, and to provide new evidence on the potential impacts of proposed policy interventions that seek to improve nutritional outcomes. Our focus will be on understanding what form preferences take and what factors might influence preference formation. We will extend economic models of food choice to reflect potential non-standard features of behaviour such as habits and temptation and we will also study the effects on decision making of advertising. To study habit formation, we will use food purchasing information on migrants and on children and their parents. We will study how we can incorporate behavioural biases such as temptation and self-control into the standard economic models of demand and use information on purchases people make for immediate and future consumption to estimate these models. We will also allow for potentially persuasive effects of advertising on consumers' choices. Finally, we will use these new models of demand to carry out ex ante policy evaluation of reforms that change relative prices or costs to study how the existence of habits formation or behavioural biases effect the potential impact of policy reform. When considering such policy counterfactuals we will analyse firm behaviour, accounting for dynamic strategic interactions between firms, in order to assess the long run impact on both demand and supply of government policy (such as taxes).
Planned Impact
The beneficiaries of this work will include the researchers involved in the project and at the host institutions, the broader academic community, policymakers (specifically, in the UK Department of Health), the media and the general public.
The researchers involved in the project will benefit by developing their skills and research capacity. In particular, the junior researcher, Kate Smith, who is involved in the project will benefit through the opportunity to work with senior academics at both institutes, to develop new econometric and computational skills and to extend her research networks. She will also benefit by engaging in dissemination activities to maximise the impact of our research outside of the academic community.
The academic community more broadly will benefit through the development of new methods and computational techniques, as detailed in the Case for Support. Policymakers will directly benefit from the research findings. This project will provide them with better evaluation of a number of proposed policy interventions. The methods and tools developed under these projects will help us to analyse a range of policies. For example, there is broad interest in the long run impact of taxes on food consumption - is the long run impact different from the short run impact because it takes time for consumers to adjust habits? There is also interest in how pricing and advertising by firms in the food market would respond to the introduction of taxes. Our research will help us to understand what impact these interventions will have and how the impact varies across different types of households and individuals. What type of person responds to these initiates - are children or poorer households getting the benefits, or is the main impact on educated households?
The media will find the results of the policy evaluations of interest, and we expect that they will receive widespread coverage. The issues around food and nutrition and how policy should react to the rising problems associated with diet related disease have received widespread coverage in the media, and we expect that they will continue to do so. The general public will benefit from the research in that it will lead to a better understanding of an issue of major current public concern. IFS has an excellent record of effective communication with both academic and non-academic users. As well as publishing in top academic journals, we will publish non-technical summaries and reports of all relevant research findings. These will be made freely available via our website and advertised through press releases and our Twitter account, which are regularly accessed by the general public, and in particular by A-level and undergraduate students. We will present research findings at academic and policy conferences, and we will participate in policy discussions of various types. We will liaise with contacts at the Department of Health and aim to involve them in the early stages of our research, using their expertise to help set our specific research agenda. We will meet with politicians, policymakers, charities and other bodies to discuss our ongoing research findings. Each year of this project we will hold a workshop at the IFS, which will aim to disseminate findings and discuss the research. We will involve policymakers and academics in these workshops.
The researchers involved in the project will benefit by developing their skills and research capacity. In particular, the junior researcher, Kate Smith, who is involved in the project will benefit through the opportunity to work with senior academics at both institutes, to develop new econometric and computational skills and to extend her research networks. She will also benefit by engaging in dissemination activities to maximise the impact of our research outside of the academic community.
The academic community more broadly will benefit through the development of new methods and computational techniques, as detailed in the Case for Support. Policymakers will directly benefit from the research findings. This project will provide them with better evaluation of a number of proposed policy interventions. The methods and tools developed under these projects will help us to analyse a range of policies. For example, there is broad interest in the long run impact of taxes on food consumption - is the long run impact different from the short run impact because it takes time for consumers to adjust habits? There is also interest in how pricing and advertising by firms in the food market would respond to the introduction of taxes. Our research will help us to understand what impact these interventions will have and how the impact varies across different types of households and individuals. What type of person responds to these initiates - are children or poorer households getting the benefits, or is the main impact on educated households?
The media will find the results of the policy evaluations of interest, and we expect that they will receive widespread coverage. The issues around food and nutrition and how policy should react to the rising problems associated with diet related disease have received widespread coverage in the media, and we expect that they will continue to do so. The general public will benefit from the research in that it will lead to a better understanding of an issue of major current public concern. IFS has an excellent record of effective communication with both academic and non-academic users. As well as publishing in top academic journals, we will publish non-technical summaries and reports of all relevant research findings. These will be made freely available via our website and advertised through press releases and our Twitter account, which are regularly accessed by the general public, and in particular by A-level and undergraduate students. We will present research findings at academic and policy conferences, and we will participate in policy discussions of various types. We will liaise with contacts at the Department of Health and aim to involve them in the early stages of our research, using their expertise to help set our specific research agenda. We will meet with politicians, policymakers, charities and other bodies to discuss our ongoing research findings. Each year of this project we will hold a workshop at the IFS, which will aim to disseminate findings and discuss the research. We will involve policymakers and academics in these workshops.
Publications
Griffith R
(2015)
Shopping Around: How Households Adjusted Food Spending Over the Great Recession
in Economica
Levell P
(2016)
Sugary drinks tax: response from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
in Lancet (London, England)
Griffith R
(2016)
The Importance of Product Reformulation Versus Consumer Choice in Improving Diet Quality
in Economica
Dubois P
(2017)
Observation - Is the new soft drinks levy well designed?
Griffith, R
(2017)
Tax design in the alcohol market
Dubois P
(2017)
How well targeted are soda taxes?
Griffith, R
(2017)
Observation - Proposed changes to alcohol taxation are small beer
Dubois P
(2017)
How well targeted are soda taxes?
Description | Our research under this grant has informed the public debate, policymakers and other stakeholders about the design and effectiveness of a range of policies intended to reduce obesity, including corrective taxes and restrictions to advertising. Specifically, it has improved understanding of the key market failures that rationalise policy intervention, how well different policies target these market failures, and how policies could be better designed to achieve their objectives. The main justification for policy interventions in this area is that individuals fail to completely account for the costs resulting from their food choices. This can be due to the existence of costs imposed on others (e.g. higher healthcare expenditure) or on themselves in the future (e.g. poor nutrition in childhood resulting in bad later social and economic outcomes) resulting from information or cognitive limitations. To design policy well it is important that we know something about the size of these costs and how they vary across individuals and within individual over time or consumption occasions. One of our key finding addresses the question of how important self-control problems are in food purchases. Self-control problems lead individuals to make choices that they later regret. Our research has provided some of the first estimates of the scale of self-control problems and how they vary across individuals using large-scale observational data. We show evidence that people suffer from self-control problems when making food purchase decisions, this varies over time with people using periodic occasions to reset their commitment to a healthier diet (most notably new years). We find that younger and lower income individuals suffer from bigger self-control problems than older and higher income individuals. A second key finding relates to the effectiveness of soda taxes to reduce excess consumption. The effectiveness of taxation to target excess consumption depends on how people respond to price changes, and how this relates to the social costs generated by the individual's consumption. Our research has studied the important on the go market, and has extended econometric methods for identifying individual level heterogeneity in demand behaviour. We have shown that soda taxes are well targeted at young people, but less well targeted at older people who regularly consume excessive amounts of sugar. A third key finding relates to the use of price based policies in the alcohol market. Our work has shown how taxes can be designed to best target heavy drinking and has shown that, while minimum unit pricing can be effective at targeting excess consumption, it would be more effective if combined with tax reform. A four key finding relates to the impact of advertising of junk foods. The UK government is considering extending restrictions to advertising of junk foods with the aim of improving diet quality of children and reducing obesity. Our work has informed policy and the public understanding of policy, on how advertising affects consumer demand (for example, does it lead to the market to expand?) and what the ultimate consequences of different policy designs will have on advertising exposure and consumption. |
Exploitation Route | This work has informed public understanding and policy makers directly, as exemplified by evidence given at select committees, in other policy forums, media coverage and academic publications. We expect that it will continue to inform policymakers and the public debate in future. Policymaking in this area is very active and we expect our findings and the links we forged with key decision-makings to lead our work to have an on-going impact on policy design. Food and alcohol markets typically comprise a set of large firms that are likely to adjust behaviour in response to policy intervention. We have made progress in modelling how firms may do this, for instance, in terms of their pricing strategies. We hope to extend this work further to develop a better understanding of how firms will make other strategic moves, like product reformulation or adjustments ot advertising strategies, and how this feeds into effective policy design. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Government Democracy and Justice Retail |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/research_areas/12 |
Description | The UK government has set ambitious targets to halve childhood obesity by 2030. This research has helped inform the public debate, policymakers and other stakeholders about the design and effectiveness of a range of policies that are intended to meet this target, including corrective taxes, restrictions to advertising and others. Specifically, our research has improved our understanding of the key market failures that rationalise policy intervention, how well different policies target these market failures and how policies could be better designed to achieve policy objectives. The contribution of this research has been to: * improve our understanding of the choice behaviour of individuals and households in the food and alcohol market, which is key to assessing public policy aimed at combating high rates of obesity and diet related disease, * improve the evidence base on how people make decisions over which products to choose and how these decisions interact with choices over pricing and advertising made by food manufacturers and retailers, * inform public debate, policy makers and other stakeholders about likely effectiveness of alternative policies, in order to promote better and more effective policy design. |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Government, Democracy and Justice,Retail |
Impact Types | Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Discussion with civil servants at HMT re. alcohol taxation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Gave evidence to the Health Select Committee on childhood obesity |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | New facts on childhood obesity |
Description | Gave evidence to the Health Select Committee on childhood obesity (Martin O'Connell) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmhealth/882/88210.htm |
Description | Gave oral evidence to the Health Committee Kate Smith |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Meeting with DH and PHE teams to discuss recent reports produced as part of OPRU |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Meeting with Department of Health and Public Health England teams to discuss recent reports produced as part of the Obesity Policy Research Unit (Rebekah Stroud and Rachel Griffith) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Meeting with Diageo to discuss alcohol policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Meeting with Diageo to discuss alcohol policy (Martin O'Connell) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Meeting with HM Treasury employee - Charles Smart |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Meeting with HM Treasury employee Charles Smart. (Rebekah Stroud, Kate Smith) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Policy influence: Discussion with civil servants at HMT re. alcohol taxation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Policy influence: Meeting with DH and PHE teams to discuss recent reports produced as part of OPRU |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Working group, expert panel, dialogue |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Working group, expert panel, dialogue |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | A cross disciplinary discussion of public policy and food choices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | A cross disciplinary discussion of public policy and food choices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on A cross disciplinary discussion of public policy and food choices, given at University of Pennsylvania |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | A new year, a new you? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article on VoxEU |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/10350 |
Description | A new year, a new you? Temptation and self-control in food purchases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'A new year, a new you? Temptation and self-control in food purchases' given at the Association of South European Theorists Annual Conference in Algiers and a presentation given in honour of Leonid Hurwicz |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | A new year, a new you? Temptation and self-control in food purchases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Article - Fixing the UK's alcohol taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Blog post for Institute of Alcohol Studies on Fixing the UK's alcohol taxes |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9053 |
Description | Article - Gluttony and Sloth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | VoxEU article on Gluttony and Sloth |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8362 |
Description | Banning junk food ads |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Video by VoxEU on Banning junk food ads |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://voxeu.org/content/banning-junk-food-adverts |
Description | Blog - Food choices and public policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog on British Academy website on Food Choice and Public Policy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/10251 |
Description | Bounding Demand Elasticities with Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Bounding Demand Elasticities with Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity, given at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at Chicago Booth School of Business |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at Chicago Booth School of Business 22/02/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/research-workshops/microeconomics |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne on 04/02/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://economics.wustl.edu/events/corrective-tax-design-oligopoly |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at Washington University in St Louis |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at Washington University in St Louis on 31/01/2020 for the paper 'Corrective tax design in oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at the University of Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at the University of Cambridge on 19 February 2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/seminars/special-seminars |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at the University of Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at the University of Oxford on 16/01/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ce76683b-1568-495a-85ca-d39a0fa05032/ |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at the University of Warwick |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminars given by Martin O'Connell at University of Warwick on 14/01/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at the University of Wisconsin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at the University of Wisconsin on 11/02/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly at the the University of Bristol |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Seminar given by Martin O'Connell at the University of Bristol on 17/02/2020 for the paper 'Corrective Tax Design in Oligopoly' by Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Corrective Tax design presentation at Cesifo applied microeconomics conference in Munich |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Martin O'Connell gave a talk on corrective tax design in imperfectly competitive markets |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Corrective tax design in imperfectly competitive markets |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS observation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Corrective taxes and consumer heterogeneity in the alcohol market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Corrective taxes and consumer heterogeneity in the alcohol market given at CREST, Paris |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Design of Optimal Corrective Taxes in the Alcohol Market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market' given at LAGV conference, RES Annual Conference, University of Vienna, University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, demand workshop in Boston, Econometric Society Winter Meetings and IFS |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2016,2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9093 |
Description | Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market given at University of Sheffield |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Video by VoxEU on Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8868 |
Description | Designing Alcohol Taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Designing Alcohol Taxes given at the Home Office |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Designing Alcohol Taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IFS Presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Do sin taxes Work? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Do sin taxes work? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Do sin taxes work?' given as part of the Richard Musgrave visiting professorship and at the RES PhD Symposium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Engaging with the childhood obesity strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Engaging with the childhood obesity strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at the Institute for Fiscal Studies' away day, and at the UCL Obesity Policy Research Unit. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Excise duties |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the launch of the Green Budget 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Getting a healthy start? Nudge versus economic incentives |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | seminar Presented at : Manchester Presented at : Oxford Presented at : York Presented at : Paris Presented at : Edinburgh Presented at : Toulouse Presented at : Bristol Presented at : Newcastle Presented at : Duisburg-Essen Presented at : Essen Presented at : Dublin |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | How much advertising for food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar do children see? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Video Clip on the IFS website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | How much advertising for food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar do children see? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS video clip |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | How well targeted are soda taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'How well targeted are soda taxes', given at Policy Discussion in Washington DC, RES Conference in Brighton, Health Economics Workshop, Imperial College London, University of Bristol, National Tax Association annual conference in Philadelphia, a conference in honour of Richard Blundell's Nemmers Prize, Queen Mary University, the RES Annual Conference, University of Venice and CREST |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | How well targeted are soda taxes? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | How well targeted are soda taxes? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | ITV News at 10 interview on soft drinks levy (sugar tax) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS broadcast |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | ITV News at 10 interview with Kate Smith on the soft drinks levy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview to discuss soft drinks levy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Income Shifting and Responses to Tax: Evidence from Company Owner-Managers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Individual preference heterogeneity, targeting and welfare effects of soda taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Individual preference heterogeneity, targeting and welfare effects of soda taxes, given at the University of Lisbon, a seminar at the University of Toulouse and University of Pennsylvania |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Individual preference heterogeneity, targeting and welfare effects of soda taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Intertemporal Income Shifting: Evidence from Small Business Owners |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Interview on Victoria Derbyshire Live (BBC News) on the sugar tax |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Kate Smith BBC expert article - Will paying more for alcohol and fizzy drinks make us healthier? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC expert article, focused on the following: An anti-obesity drive is about to see a tax introduced on sugary drinks across the UK, while Scotland is set to impose a minimum price on alcohol to target problem drinking. But does making unhealthy products more expensive persuade people to make "better" choices? And what are the trade-offs associated with doing so? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43414777 |
Description | Kate Smith interview on ITV News at 10 interview on soft drinks levy (sugar tax) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Kate Smith was interviewed on the ITV News at 10 discussing the soft drinks levy (sugar tax) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Kate Smith interview on Victoria Derbyshire Live (BBC News) on the sugar tax |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview on Victoria Derbyshire live on the 05/04/2018 about the sugar tax. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Kate Smith interviewed on Victoria Derbyshire Live (BBC News) on the sugar tax |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | TV interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Kate Smith on alcohol duty |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In this podcast, Kate Smith talks about duties on alcohol to the Institute of Alcohol Studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8193 |
Description | LSE Election Debate on Tax Policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IFS expert panel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Oral evidence to select committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Kate Smith gave oral evidence to health select committee |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Overexposed to unhealthy ads? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article published in society magazine discussing the potential role of advertising restrictions in combating obesity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/news/news-items/overexposed-to-unhealthy-ads/ |
Description | Overexposed to unhealthy ads? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS newspaper article |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation: Design of optimal corrective taxes in the alcohol market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This presentation was delivered by Rachel Griffith at Sheffield University on 15 February 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation: Income Shifting and Responses to Tax: Evidence from Company Owner-Managers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk given at CPP Away Day |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation: Intertemporal Income Shifting: Evidence from Small Business Owners |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar given at CPEG-PEUK Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation: Intertemporal Income Shifting: Evidence from Small Business Owners |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Seminar given at King's College, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation: Soda Tax Design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Soda Tax Design given at the UCL PhD conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation: The design of corrective taxes under nonlinear externalities and heterogeneous tastes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the Ce2 workshop. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Press release - Proposed 50p minimum unit price for alcohol would increase prices of around 70% of off-trade alcohol purchases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press release for briefing note on minimum pricing for alcohol |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/10252 |
Description | Public economics: corrective taxes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given by Kate Smith at the Public Economics Lecture Day on 6 January 2017. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public policy and food choices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at Wellcome Trust seminar. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public policy and food choices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public policy to lower sugar intake |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Public policy to lower sugar intake |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Public policy to lower sugar intake' given at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Keynote Seminar and a sugar reduction event in Westminster |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Rachel Griffith keynote presentation on whether sin taxes work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation given as the keynote talk at the French Economic Association in Nice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://afse2017.sciencesconf.org/ |
Description | Radio broadcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio interview on BBC Radio Devon discussing alcohol minimum unit pricing - Martin O'Connell |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio broadcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Martin O'Connell interviewed on BBC Radio Cornwall to discuss alcohol minimum unit pricing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio interview on BBC Radio Cornwall |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Martin O'Connell gave an interview to BBC Radio Cornwall on 18/12/2017 discussing alcohol minimum unit pricing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio interview on BBC Radio Cornwall discussing alcohol minimum unit pricing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio interview on BBC Radio Devon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Martin O'Connell was interviewed discussing alcohol minimum unit pricing on 18/12/2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Radio interview on BBC Radio Devon discussing alcohol minimum unit pricing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Soda Tax Design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation given by Kate Smith and Martin O'Connell at Barcelona GES Summer Forum, University College London PhD conference, and a seminar given at KU Leuven. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
Description | Soda tax design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Temptation and Sugar Consumption |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Temptation and Sugar Consumption |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the IIPF Annual Conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | The design of corrective taxes under nonlinear externalities and heterogeneous tastes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IFS presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | The design of corrective taxes under nonlinear externalities and heterogeneous tastes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the Ce2 workshop in Warsaw |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | The distributional effects of a soda tax |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This presentation was held at the Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Lake Tahoe, USA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | The soft drinks levy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the IFS post-Budget presentation on 17 March 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Using public policy to improve diet |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at the Scottish Government Strategy Unit Seminar Series. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Video on VoxEU |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Kate Smith recorded for VoxEU at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference. The video was discusses how to design taxes when costs associated with drinking vary across people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://voxeu.org/content/designing-alcohol-taxes |
Description | Will paying more for alcohol and fizzy drinks make us healthier? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | IFS newspaper article |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |