distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a …

.31%, and further increases the overweight and obesity rates by 0.89 and 0.19 percentage points, respectively. Our paper … identifies a new cause of obesity, and sheds new light on the morbidity cost of air pollution …

employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … grandparenting could have beneficial effects on childhood obesity …

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 …

Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain … the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal impact of economic insecurity on obesity …-level increase in obesity …