The effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on obesity have been the focus of much debate … quasi-experimental variation in SNAP benefit amount on adult obesity. Children of SNAP households qualify for free in … for SNAP households. We find that increases in SNAP benefits have no effect on obesity levels for the full sample of those …

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

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … current obesity, we project distributions of obesity when cohorts were age 25. To these distributions we apply death rates by … current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of …

blue collar work, on subsequent health outcomes relating to body mass index, obesity, alcohol consumption, and physical … higher body mass index and obesity later in life, while labor occupations are related to higher probabilities of smoking … later in life. Blue collar work early in life is associated with increased probabilities of obesity and smoking, and …

around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes …

factors -- like neighborhood quality and the built environment -- may have on the nation's obesity crisis. This paper explores … differences in such perceptions may explain any of the hitherto unexplained gap in bodyweight and obesity prevalence among Whites …