price of fruit and vegetables in brine by 10% would decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity by 24% and 33 …% respectively. The fall in health care expenditures would represente up to 1.39% of total health care spendings in 2004. …

Obesity spreads more easily if is not perceived negatively. This may be the case among the poor, for whom fatness can … be an external sign of wealth. We estimate the direct effect of overweight on emotional well-being in Mexico, a country … facing the highest obesity rate in the world. Individual fatness is instrumented using variation in genetic predisposition …

overconsumption and obesity on mortality tends to question that postulate. This paper develops a two-period OLG model where life …

satisfaction after some threshold. Critically, this latter threshold increases with partner's BMI when the individual is overweight …

child income. We first build a simple theoretical model linking parental health risk, educational choice and appropriation … compiled from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) database for 17 Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries between the years 2003 …

tax is shown to be independent of the weight the privatized firm puts on social welfare. The optimal tax rule, the …

This paper assesses the impact of French policies for residential space-heating energy consumption, both enacted (tax … anticipated (carbon tax, retrofitting obligation). It uses a hybrid energy-economy model incorporating specific features of energy … but, with the exception of carbon tax, generate a rebound effect ; (ii) interactions among instruments are roughly …

level of tax is sufficient under certain circumstances to significantly reduce segregation. We then investigate the effect of …

and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …