Grocery food taxes and U.S. county obesity and diabetes rates
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Taxes, Inequality and Obesity
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics Review
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2191-1991
DOI: 10.1186/s13561-021-00306-2