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

Obesity is associated with serious health problems, and it can generate adverse economic outcomes. We analyze a … nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self …-esteem. Wages can be impacted directly by obesity, and they can be influenced by obesity indirectly through the channel of obesity …

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

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …