This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for …, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …

number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as … obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and …

political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which … applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating … in both waves in 16 regions of eight European countries. Peers are defined as same-sex children in the same school and …

To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child … care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … more juice for their children after child cares limit their juice provision, but such offsetting behavior disappears after …

a significant drop in the likelihood of obesity (but may also lead to an increase in the child's probability of being …