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Sweet Persuasion: Soft Drinks, School Funding, And Children'S Health

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You, Wen
Mitchell, Paul D.
Davis, George

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“"Pouring rights”" contracts between soft drink companies and schools have created substantial controversy. Treating the issue as externality problem, we analyze the Pigouvian tax solution and propose a contract between the government and schools to provide an incentive compatible method for government to utilize the tax revenue.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO with number 20129.

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  1. Lange, Andreas & Requate, Till, 2000. " Pigouvian Taxes in General Equilibrium with a Fixed Tax Redistribution Rule," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 2(1), pages 25-42. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Dahlman, Carl J, 1979. "The Problem of Externality," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 22(1), pages 141-62, April.
  3. Udo Ebert & Oskar von dem Hagen, 1998. "Pigouvian Taxes Under Imperfect Competition If Consumption Depends on Emissions," Environmental & Resource Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 12(4), pages 507-513, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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