the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … price or free school lunches. We do not find any evidence that healthier school lunches lead to a decrease in obesity rates …

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 …

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 …