associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

of obesity among adults and analyses the socioeconomic factors contributing to the problem. The associated costs of …This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity … obesity are also investigated, both in terms of health status, health care spending and absenteeism. …

or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of …

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 …

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn't found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …

hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of a NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge along … manifest in obesity problems. …

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 …

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in … find that calorie mandates lead to a small but statistically significant reduction in average BMI of 0.2 kg/m2 (1.5 pounds … BMI and life satisfaction are concentrated among those with healthy weight. Viewed in its totality, the pattern of results …