Increasing trends in obesity have driven policymakers around the US to examine factors associated with lower Body Mass … in individual BMI. Combining individual data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with state …

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in …

predisposition to high BMI - measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores - on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We … probability of obesity for females by 2.8 percentage points, about half the size of the effect induced by a one standard deviation …

I argue that increased consumption of vegetable seed oils high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats has driven obesity in … the United States, a link overlooked in the economics literature. Obesity rates have closely tracked the level of seed …

Rising prevalence of obesity among adults and children is a major policy issue in many countries. Two widely discussed … instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare … for healthy and unhealthy meals. We show that the policy which reduces obesity under the most general conditions is the …

We hypothesize that recent trends in U.S. and worldwide obesity are, in part, related to an increase in the marginal … obesity and time preference, as important insights are likely to result. …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …