lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …

-bearing and insurance, for the liability system acts as an implicit insurer for accident victims and it imposes risk on potential … injurers (because they may have to pay judgments to victims). In this regard, victims' accident insurance and injurers …' liability insurance are taken into account. The third general aspect of accident liability is its administrative expense …

Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …

excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and … growth of excess weight. Using the concentration index we find that prevalence of overweight and obesity affected …

-30 for women). Instead of an "obesity penalty" we find evidence of an "overweight premium" in socially active jobs which is …