In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age …

The increase in obesity over the past thirty years has led researchers to investigate the role of social networks as a …

This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact of obesity on medical … weight as a natural experiment, yields estimates of the impact of obesity on medical costs that are considerably higher than … the correlations reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is associated with $676 higher annual medical …

's enlistment standards for weight-for-height and percent body fat. The implications of rising obesity for the U.S. military are …

around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children …

not clear why the prevalence of obesity has increased so dramatically over the last 30 years.We simultaneously estimate … compare the prevalence of obesity between cohorts surveyed roughly 25 years apart. Using the traditional Blinder …

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … current obesity, we project distributions of obesity when cohorts were age 25. To these distributions we apply death rates by … current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of …

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …