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. …

Research attributes much of the rise in obesity to technological progress reducing the cost of food consumption. We … Supercenter entry dates and locations, we examine the effects of Supercenters on body mass index (BMI) and obesity. We account for … the endogeneity of Walmart Supercenter locations with an instrumental variables approach that exploits the unique …

Context: Over the past few decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions, and is a major contributor to the global … burden of chronic diseases and disability. There is little evidence on obesity related co-morbidities in BRICS countries …. Objectives: The first objective is to examine the factors associated with overweight and obesity in four of the five BRICS …

a number of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneity problems, non-linear associations and …