The rather small literature on obesity in developing countries mainly uses descriptive statistics and cross section … analysis to focus on rising income levels as the source of rapidly increasing obesity rates. This paper uses a new panel … the main driver of rising obesity levels. The results of the fixed effects estimation suggest that urbanization and …

obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of calorie demand and health supply, as reflected in aggregate mortality … goods and of wages reduces the macro demand for caloriesand supply of mortality associated with obesity, but other forms of …