Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … 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 …

, and poorer nutrition. We propose an empirical method to isolate two facets of self-control limitations high impulsivity …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …

. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When … happiness. For overweight men the influence is ambiguous but more speaks in favour of a less level of satisfaction. Overweight …

.31%, and further increases the overweight and obesity rates by 0.89 and 0.19 percentage points, respectively. Our paper … Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic information for 13,226 adult individuals over … identifies a new cause of obesity, and sheds new light on the morbidity cost of air pollution …

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 … newly developed Economic Security Index (ESI) with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES …

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 …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican … 2012. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a … food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …