In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race …

This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …

results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare … prepregnancy obesity with the exception of LGA, SGA, low birth weight and preterm birth. We find that prepregnancy obesity is …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which … - while waist circumference generally gives rise to larger peer effects than BMI. We also provide evidence that parental …

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

black men having a significantly lower obesity rate among black men. The fact that neither the BMI nor the BIA based … 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 …

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