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 …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

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 …

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

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 …

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

This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

modern obesity epidemic is a well-known health dilemma where the BMI distribution was initially positively skewed but has … become more symmetric, which may affect inferences about health and public resource allocation. This study applies partially …