implications of rising obesity for the U.S. military are especially acute given its recent difficulties in recruiting a sufficient …

estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from …, which exploits genetic variation in weight as a natural experiment, yields estimates of the impact of obesity on medical … costs that are considerably higher than the correlations reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. The increase in obesity over the past thirty years has led researchers to …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Sedentary lifestyles, obesity, and obesity-related chronic diseases have become …