economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency … rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and … transitional processes, particularly economic transitions on nutritional and health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that the …