weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …

obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to … as a "soda tax," effective January 2014. Since the tax took effect nationwide, there is no conventional control group … that can be used as a baseline to estimate how the tax affected prices. Instead, I make use of control commodities, that is …

domestic SSB sales, vis-à-vis bottled water. The soda tax hindered SSB firms' financial health, namely net income, ability to …Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting … comparison group, to assess the causal impacts of the tax on multiple firm-level outcomes. We find a 6.8% average decrease in …

Due to high levels of obesity, various government interventions have been proposed to curb the consumption of sugar … controversial. While public debates about beverage-size-restrictions tend to focus on how consumers are impacted, we use a nonlinear …

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting … derives the following results. (1) Many combinations of weight and height lead to the same health status. (2) Obese people …

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 …

The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often … Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …