fast food restaurants. Specifically, we ask how the supply of fast food affects the obesity rates of 3 million school … within a tenth of a mile of a school is associated with at least a 5.2 percent increase in obesity rates. There is no …, proximity to future fast food restaurants is uncorrelated with current obesity and weight gain, conditional on current proximity …

intake and obesity. The cross-national trends, across countries spanning the spectrum of economic development and geographic …

obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive … causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal role in increasing the prevalence of obesity, then policy … from major depression to higher BMI and obesity. While contemporaneous effects are considered, the study primarily focuses …