the early 1980s. Although there are few straightforward policy tools to combat the high level of obesity, almost two … role in the incidence of childhood obesity. I employ two methods to isolate the causal impact of school lunches on … groups of children enter kindergarten with the same obesity rates, the panel data suggests that the difference in obesity …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …