Model (FEM), a demographic and economic state-transition microsimulation model that projects the health conditions and …

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 …