externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern …

Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … representative sample of English children and their parents for the period 1996-2009. We examine the magnitude and change of the … age 0.7 percentage point among infants to 1.3-1.4 percentage points among schooled children and teenagers. However, we …

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … obesity and body mass index) distribution. We draw upon longitudinal data from the United Kingdom, a country where about half …