to illness for Russian adults by gender, in orderto better understand the mechanisms through which obesity affects … obesity (BMI above 30) on employment only for women but not on wages.During the transition in Russia, the increasingly …

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has providedimportant insights as to how technological … progress reduced the relative price of food andcontributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of …’swell-being. It is found that obesity decreases the well-being of individuals who report limitedself-control, but not otherwise. …

We extend the existing literature on food taxes targeting obesity. We systematically incorporatethe implicit … and fats. The approach conditions how foodand obesity taxes affect total calorie intake. The proposed methodology accounts …

obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of calorie demand and health supply, as reflected in aggregate mortality … goods and of wages reduces the macro demand for caloriesand supply of mortality associated with obesity, but other forms of …

The traditional literature on the CAPM assumes that the tax payments of the investors simply vanish from the model …. This assumption is not at all consistent with the actual behaviour of the tax man.From the theory of general equilibrium we … the CAPM if the tax payments are redistributed among investors. Furthermore, the result also holds for nonvanishing …