{"id":14827,"date":"2009-11-03T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T22:12:05","slug":"maine-public-radio-discusses-soda-tax-research-with-economics-professor-nate-tefft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/03\/maine-public-radio-discusses-soda-tax-research-with-economics-professor-nate-tefft\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Public Radio discusses Bates economist Nate Tefft&#039;s soda-tax research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Public Radio interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2009\/10\/16\/soda-tax\/\">Bates economist Nate Tefft,<\/a> whose research finds that while soda taxes raise revenue, their impact on obesity, says reporter Josie Huang, is &#8220;less sizeable than health advocates would hope. For every 1 percent tax increase, body mass index drops by just three-thousandths of a point.&#8221; The interview reflects interest in Tefft&#8217;s co-authored article &#8220;Can Soft Drink Taxes reduce Population Weight?&#8221; \u2014 read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economics.emory.edu\/Working_Papers\/wp\/2008wp\/Frisvold_08_08_paper.pdf\">the working paper<\/a> \u2014 published in the journal <em>Contemporary Economic Policy<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpbn.net\/News\/MaineNews\/tabid\/181\/ctl\/ViewItem\/mid\/3475\/ItemId\/9455\/Default.aspx\">Hear story from Maine Public Radio, Oct. 20, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Public Radio interviews Bates economist Nate Tefft, whose research finds that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,162,11009],"tags":[11051,3117],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-health-medicine","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93270,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/93270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}