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 …

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 …

) 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. …

regression indicated that the risk ratio (RR) for all crashes was significantly higher for drivers in the obesity Class II and …. Similarly, the multivariate Cox Proportional Hazard model results showed that crash risk was significantly higher for obesity … class II (BMI 35 to <40; relative risk (RR) = 1.47, P = 0.02) with weaker evidence of increased crash risk for obesity class …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …