Economic aspects of obesity
By: edited by Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780226310091
Subjects: Obesity; Congresses
Description: In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the US has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled. This text provides a strong foundation for evaluating the costs and benefits of various proposals designed to control obesity rates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan; title: The impact of minimum wage rates on body weight in the United States / David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen; title: Does health insurance make you fat? / Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood; title: Food prices and the dynamics of body weight / Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng; title: Outcomes in a program that offers financial rewards for weight loss / John Cawley and Joshua A. Price; title: Economic contextual factors and child body mass index; title: Lisa M. Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka; title: The relationship between perceptions of neighborhood characteristics and obesity among children / Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer, and Lisa C. Gary; title: Studying the child obesity epidemic with natural experiments / Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson, and O.T. Ford; title: Food stamp program and consumption choices / Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao; title: Physical activity: economic and policy factors / Melayne M. McInnes and Judith A. Shinogle; title: Effects of weight on adolescent educational attainment / Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, and Benjamin Yarnoff; title: Where does the wage penalty bite? / Christian A. Gregory and Christopher J. Ruhm; title: Obesity, self-esteem, and wages / Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin.