This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

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 …

not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …

obesity rates. …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper …

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