lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …

rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European …We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are … economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …

distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …

Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries. For men it is possible to …

There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the …