The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced … cannot confirm that falling smoking leads in a major way to rising obesity rates in the U.S …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper …

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

A growing literature examines the effects of economic variables on obesity, typically focusing on only one or a few … obesity, and 59% of the rise in class II/III obesity. Quantile regressions also point to large effects among the heaviest …

The escalating rate of obesity in the US highlights the importance of understanding the causes for this rise. In this … of the determinants of adult obesity. To control for the potential endogeneity of some explanatory variables, such as … simultaneously with the obesity equation. To identify each equation, I use an array of state-level characteristics as instrumental …