obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …

countries face a double burden of malnutrition, and individuals that have overcome food poverty risk often remain health …

disorders using data from the American College Health Association. Using Propensity Score Matching and Instrumental Variable …

that follows its own motion, of course driven by agents’ behavior. The topical issue of obesity serves as motivation and …