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 …

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems … specification checks. -- obesity ; credit card debt ; propensity score matching …

There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject … to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent …. Our preferred estimate suggests reduced smoking accounts for 6% of the concurrent rise in obesity …

estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from …, which exploits genetic variation in weight as a natural experiment, yields estimates of the impact of obesity on medical … costs that are considerably higher than the correlations reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is …