obesity. The sales tax can stimulate the consumption of healthy meals by lowering the time costs of food preparation. Moreover …, the sales tax lowers obesity under more general conditions than a tax on unhealthy food (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy … counterproductive and increases weight. While both the sales tax and the fat tax mitigate obesity, the former imposes a lower excess …

Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese …. Understanding whether obesity is associated with adverse labor market outcomes and ascertaining the source of these outcomes are …

Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI—body mass … index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences of …

This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data … example, obesity is associated with almost 20 percent lower earnings for U.S. and German women. We test for causality using IV …

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK using the British Household … been spared from the obesity epidemic. …

of obesity before and after the 2008 expansion to identify effects of the legal change, but I find no improvement in the …