An attempt is made to establish the relation between risk-health factors (encapsulated in terms of obesity) and … regional convergence, with special reference to the US states. The econometric results indicate that obesity does have an …

This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment and obesity and to identify public policies … developed. Our framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the … obesity is positively related with employment, then social optimality dictates the imposition of a lump-sum tax on all …

Work hours may affect obesity if reduced leisure time decreases exercise and causes substitution from meals prepared at … labor force participation account for 6% and 10% of the growth in adult and childhood obesity in recent decades. …

Obesity and diabetes are increasingly attributed to environmental factors, however, little attention has been paid to … ‘local’ food economy with county-level prevalence of obesity and diabetes. Key indicators of the ‘local’ food economy include … environment is strongly associated with prevalence of obesity and diabetes and a strong 'local' food economy may play an important …

Over the last few decades, the prevalence of obesity among US citizens has grown rapidly, especially among low … suggest that FSP participation increases obesity. This finding is however based on analyses that assumed that participants do …

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence … of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie …

percent of the obesity wage gap. While contemporaneous wage penalties for body weight are small, the cost over the life cycle …

of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it … takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary school system and uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant … concentration within schools. While we report an insignificant impact of the share of immigrant classmates overall, we show that …