Chou, Shin-Yi; Rashad, Inas; Grossman, Michael - In: Journal of Law and Economics 51 (2008) 4, pp. 599-618
Childhood obesity is an escalating problem around the world that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects...