The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper …

predisposition to high BMI - measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores - on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We … probability of obesity for females by 2.8 percentage points, about half the size of the effect induced by a one standard deviation …

Due to high levels of obesity, various government interventions have been proposed to curb the consumption of sugar …

.31%, and further increases the overweight and obesity rates by 0.89 and 0.19 percentage points, respectively. Our paper … identifies a new cause of obesity, and sheds new light on the morbidity cost of air pollution. …

In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican … imports from the U.S. can explain up to twenty percent of the rise in obesity prevalence among Mexican women between 1988 and … 2012. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a …