employer costs associated with health insurance and job absenteeism. This paper examines the outcomes of 2635 workers across 24 …

New regulation of health insurance markets creates multiple levels of health plans, with designations like “Gold” and … “Silver.” The underlying rationale for the heavy-metal approach to insurance regulation is that heterogeneity in demand for …

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations … of obesity among 5th graders. This effect is concentrated among boys; we find evidence that this gender difference is …. This represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support …

to prices. However, another potentially important reason for rising obesity is that food producers have incentives to … become more common as obesity has increased. …

externality we identify offsets the negative Medicare-induced insurance externality of obesity. The Medicare-induced obesity …It is well-known that pooled insurance coverage can induce people to make inefficiently low investments in self … associated chronic conditions and behavioral patterns such as obesity, smoking, and malnutrition increase the incidence of many …