In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …

-group teaching component (classes or seminars) and on the role of attendance, number of students per class, peers, and tutors. The … specifications, we find positive returns to attendance and sizeable differences in the effectiveness of teaching assistants, most …

classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom learning vary by course subject, and how much attendance in one …

obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …

consumption and obesity) – both at the individual and country levels. The main findings are: (i) SAHS regressions provide clear … effects of country-specific risk factors (country-level measures of smoking, obesity, and alcohol consumption) on the … obese individuals in the country. It appears that country-level smoking and obesity affect negatively aggregate country SAHS …

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

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other … analysis of the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes. …