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Risky Health Behavior Incentives
There are three different models for addictive behaviors: Irrational Actors, Rational Actors and Imperfectly Rational Actors. This helps break down the problem of how we think of individuals who engage in risky health behaviors such as drinking alcohol, smoking drug use and eating behaviors that lead to obesity. This paper seeks to analyze these models in and analyze how policy can be constructed in such a manner that it adheres to these models.

Price Discounts and Beverage Consumption
This paper aimed at determining how efficient the efforts to shift consumers from sugary drinks towards zero calories drink. It broke up the experiment in 5 different interventions. Some received a price discount for the zero calorie beverage, the other messaging about calories, some both, others comparing calorie and exercising information. The results from this experiment show that the effects of price discounting and calorie labeling were insignificant and if positive, very small.

Demand Responses
Berkeley, California enacted a one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks on March 20, 2015. Preliminary research on demand has shown that there has been decreased consumption of sugary drinks. However, this paper seeks to examine the effects that implementing such a policy would have nationwide. While there is sufficient evidence to show that consumption has gone down among the average households, high consuming households do not experience a such a drastic change since they are not as price sensitive.

Soda Tax Abroad
Abroad, the impacts of sugary drinks may be different. This paper aims at investigating if there are any complements. Meaning if people associate soda with a tax, will they be more prone to buy say sugary juice drinks. The study also speculates that theoretically, an increase in the price of soda can reduce the weight of the average citizen in Mexico.