In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely …-effective strategy to cope with the obesity epidemic. We examine this question in a simulation model based on the results of the M ….O.B.I.L.I.S program, a German lifestyle intervention to reduce obesity, which is directed on the high-risk group of people who are already …

peer health and also in reactivity to peer influence. This paper estimates heterogeneity in the peer effects of obesity … suggest that policies that reduce obesity could simultaneously widen some existing health disparities due to the …Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to …