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 …

, suggesting obesity is partly attributable to rational intertemporal tradeoffs but also partly to time inconsistency …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …

Obesity rates in the U.S. have doubled since 1980. Given the medical, social, and financial costs of obesity, a large …

factors -- like neighborhood quality and the built environment -- may have on the nation's obesity crisis. This paper explores … differences in such perceptions may explain any of the hitherto unexplained gap in bodyweight and obesity prevalence among Whites …

This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data … (including body mass index and obesity) controlling for a rich set of child, parent, and family characteristics. The findings … indicate that, among boys, obesity is associated with reduced verbal skills, social skills, motor skills, and activities of …

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular … emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …

information impacted body weight and obesity among American adults. We estimate the effect of the new label using a difference … obesity. Using NLEA regulatory impact analysis benchmarks, we estimate that the total monetary benefit of this decrease in …

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid … Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various state-level variables have on body mass index and obesity. These …, display many of the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for …