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 …

Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or … to identify the causal role of schooling in affecting obesity among children and adolescents, using new estimation …

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

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

supermarket access as policy instruments to address childhood obesity …

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