The empirical evidence of a non-monotone relation between income and obesity is not well explained. We build a … theoretical model combining income inequality and social comparisons to explain the link between income and obesity and study tax … income and positionality effects, yielding the following results. We explain the link between average obesity rates, and …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … income growth from 1950 to 1980 as a proxy for socioeconomic forces that created unbalanced physical growth among southern …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper … income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification and …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper … social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …

socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …

obesity, income and gender. Obesity changes with income, but in a non-linear way. On average, obesity increases with income in …. Within countries, obesity is concentrated among richer groups in low-income countries and evenly distributed in middle-income … obese in low-income countries and much more obese in middleincome countries. The gender obesity gap disappears in high-income …