Obesity rates in the U.S. have doubled since 1980. Given the medical, social, and financial costs of obesity, a large … financial incentives at all and serve as a control group. We examine the basic patterns of enrollment, attrition, and weight …

Obesity rates in the U.S. have doubled since 1980. Given the medical, social, and financial costs of obesity, a large … financial incentives at all and serve as a control group. We examine the basic patterns of enrollment, attrition, and weight …

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 …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

obesity rate among black women is substantially higher than among white women. However, the opposite is true for men, with the … 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 …

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 …’s perceptions of an ideal body shape and thus model the preference for a higher body weight. Women are more affected by increasing …