children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

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 …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern … decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

predicted to decrease the per capita energy purchase by 29.17 kcal/day. The annual health benefits of the tax, measured only in …We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households' nutrients … purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on unhealthy food is strictly positive. However, it is only second best since it … tax may under- or overinternalize the marginal damage. …

This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight … paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's weight problem (intensive margin), but does not induce the individual … other goods), which may render the tax on unhealthy food inferior to the option of not taxing the individual at all. In …