Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk … study was to assess a potential causal relationship between obesity or alcohol use, and educational outcomes, in Germany …-invariant confounders. The results suggest that the presence of obesity during childhood, as well as alcohol consumption during childhood …

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 …

The beginning rise in obesity prevalence rates in South Africa was first noticed already in the early 1990s. Since then …-economic and cultural factors have on the probability of becoming obese. The concept of “benign” obesity seems to influence people … probability of becoming obese. To address the problems of obesity, we suggest implementing programs that change people’s attitudes …

Increasing prevalence of obesity is a pressing public health issue in the Czech Republic as well as world …. Given that obesity is a chronic disease which is associated with several serious comorbidities, it generates large social … costs. The main aim of this study was to estimate both direct and indirect costs of obesity in the Czech Republic. Social …

Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain … the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal impact of economic insecurity on obesity …-level increase in obesity. …