We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

What is the role of government policies in encouraging healthier food choices to fight the current overweight and … obesity epidemics? This report briefly examines the evidence base on unhealthy diets, including the associated burden on …

Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the … National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare absenteeism among overweight and obese workers to absenteeism among normal … about 1.3 (1.5) percentage points among obese (overweight) individuals. Disaggregated regressions suggest that the effect is …

explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …