significantly underestimate their 5-year risks of diabetes, arthritis or rheumatism, and hypertension, while they systematically … overestimate their 5-year risks of a heart attack and a stroke. Obese individuals are thus aware of some but not all obesity …

In order to explain the growth of obesity in industrialized and transition economies, a behavioral approach to food … intake and overconsumption of calories is presented. It is argued that changes in food consumption patterns are one of the … main drivers behind the imbalance of calories consumed and calories spent. The inclusion of new types of food in the …

The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known … the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in earnings, which amounts to about 18 percent, is linked to supply …-side characteristics that are associated with both earnings and obesity. In particular, we show that the penalty reflects negative …

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of … serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether overweight or obese individuals demand more medical care than normal …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … substitution of the provision of food rich in carbohydrates for food rich in proteins. In contrast, we do not find any significant …