Does a ban on trans fats improve public health: synthetic control evidence from Denmark

Spruk, Rok; Kovac, Mitja

doi:10.1186/s41937-019-0048-0

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 6 Impact of the TFA ban on public health outcomes outside Denmark

From: Does a ban on trans fats improve public health: synthetic control evidence from Denmark

	Year of the ban	CVD death rate	Adult obesity rate	Adolescent obesity rate	Child obesity rate	Fraction overweight	BMI
Panel A: synthetic control estimates
Switzerland	2008	5 fewer deaths per 100,000 (0.022)	− 0.8 p.p.(0.017)	− 0.2 p.p.(0.027)	No effect	− 0.6 p.p.(0.005)	No effect
Austria	2009	No effect	+ 0.2 p.p.(0.002)	+ 0.25 p.p.(0.005)	+ 0.30 p.p.(0.004)	No effect	+ 0.08 b.p.(0.027)
Iceland	2011	6 fewer deaths per 100,000 (0.047)	No effect	+ 0.32 p.p.(0.003)	+ 0.32 p.p.(0.003)	− 0.3 p.p.(0.0005)	+ 0.13 b.p.(0.033)
Panel B: composition of the synthetic control group for Switzerland
Belgium		0.002	0	0	0	0	0.619
Brazil		0.002	0	0	0	0	0
Canada		0.098	0	0	0.037	0	0.071
Colombia		0	0	0	0.037	0	0
Finland		0	0	0	0	0.66	0
Germany		0.512	0.058	0	0	0	0.051
Japan		0.255	0.131	0.207	0.489	0.117	0.26
Netherlands		0	0	0.426	0.437	0	0
Sweden		0	0.474	0.367	0	0	0
USA		0.132	0.337	0	0	0.227	0
Panel C: composition of the synthetic control group for Austria
Australia		0	0.039	0	0.019	0	0
Belgium		0.225	0.181	0.072	0.218	0.361	0.176
Canada		0	0	0	0	0.108	0
Estonia		0	0	0	0	0	0.011
Finland		0.445	0.01	0.162	0	0	0
France		0	0	0.541	0.017	0	0.317
Germany		0.071	0.146	0	0.173	0.071	0.004
Greece		0	0.005	0	0	0	0
Italy		0.026	0.159	0	0.094	0.166	0.010
Japan		0	0.044	0	0.050	0.050	0.059
Latvia		0	0	0	0.001	0	0
Lithuania		0.032	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands		0	0.138	0.154	0.408	0.015	0.276
South Korea		0	0.037	0	0	0.106	0.055
Sweden		0	0.141	0	0	0	0
UK		0	0	0.047	0	0	0.044
USA		0.20	0.10	0.024	0.021	0.121	0.048
Panel D: composition of the synthetic control group for Iceland
Belgium		0	0	0.457	0.387	0.124	0
Brazil		0.001	0	0	0.002	0	0
Canada		0	0	0.014	0	0	0.081
Chile		0	0.052	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica		0.136	0	0	0	0	0
Estonia		0	0.137	0	0	0.179	0
Finland		0	0.143	0	0	0.385	0.257
France		0	0	0	0.004	0	0
Germany		0	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland		0.300	0.001	0	0	0	0
Israel		0	0.244	0.409	0.337	0.08	0.164
Italy		0	0	0	0.178	0	0
Japan		0	0	0	0.027	0	0
Latvia		0	0	0	0	0.059	0
Netherlands		0	0.218	0.036	0	0	0.338
Mexico		0.099	0	0	0	0	0
Russia		0	0	0	0.005	0	0
South Korea		0	0.026	0	0	0	0
Spain		0	0.053	0	0	0	0
Sweden		0.465	0.125	0	0	0.043	0.160
UK		0	0	0	0	0	0
USA		0	0	0.084	0.059	0.129	0

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