In this paper, we examine the effect of suburbanization on obesity rates. Our study is an improvement over the existing … effect of highways on obesity rates within an MSA, particularly the suburbs versus the central city. To estimate the … relationship between obesity and highways, we will use county-level data on obesity rates from the Behavioral Risk Factor …

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 …

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