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【健康经济学】中国烟草、酒精和含糖饮料的消费和税收政策对健康和经济的影响

时间:2021年10月27日(周三)上午10:00-11:30

主讲人:刘世勇(北京师范大学珠海校区, 政府治理研究中心)

报告题目:中国烟草、酒精和含糖饮料的消费和税收政策对健康和经济的影响

参会方式:腾讯会议(请发送姓名、学院至18701189960@163.com以获取会议链接,仅限北大师生)

报告摘要:

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have become the major health challenges globally, killing 41 million people each year and accounting for 71% of all death worldwide. Among factors contributing to the rising trend of NCDs, some risk factors like excessive consumptions of tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are common and preventable through well-designed interventions. In China, smoking rate among people aged 15 and over was 26.6% and the number of smokers increased to 308 million in 2018. As a social “Guanxi” lubricant in China, alcohol consumption drove prevalence of heavy episodic drinking (HED) as high as 22.7% in 2016, which is higher than that of world average (18.2%). Although SSBs consumption per capital per day in China is lower than that of world (11.71 vs 208.24 grams, 2015) at large, a fact that adolescent obesity attributable to excessive SSBs must be paid attention. This report uses two survey data, namely China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 1993-2015 and China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2011-2015 to estimate the health effects and price elasticity of demand for consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in China, and investigate the welfare effects of levying tax on such substances in China, and explores the responses of different income groups to tax policies on such substances.