Economic Aspects of Obesity

Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan

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Date: 2011
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction to "Economic Aspects of Obesity" , pp 1-16

Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan

The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States , pp 17-34

David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat? , pp 35-64

Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace and Neeraj Sood

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight , pp 65-90

Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla and Yuhui Zheng

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss , pp 91-126

John Cawley and Joshua Price

Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index , pp 127-144

Lisa M. Powell and Frank Chaloupka

The Relationship between Perceptions of Neighborhood Characteristics and Obesity among Children , pp 145-180

Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer and Lisa C. Gary

Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic with Natural Experiments , pp 181-221

Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson and O. T. Ford

Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices , pp 223-247

Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao

Physical Activity: Economic and Policy Factors , pp 249-282

Melayne McInnes and Judith Shinogle

Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment , pp 283-313

Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman and Benjamin Yarnoff

Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite? , pp 315-347

Christian Gregory and Christopher Ruhm

Obesity, Self-Esteem and Wages , pp 349-380

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

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