native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …'s weight and BMI for natives, while single motherhood increases weight and BMI for both native and immigrant children. Finally … immigrants look like native children. Unfortunately, the more generations immigrant families remain in the U.S., the more …

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to … immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food stamps use by foreign-born unmarried mothers with a high school or …

formation. This paper tests for peer effects in obesity in a novel way that addresses these challenges. It addresses the … reflection problem by using the alter's genetic risk score for obesity, which is a significant predictor of obesity, is … Adolescent Health, we find evidence of positive peer effects in weight and obesity; having a sibling with a high genetic …

This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables to estimate the causal impact of youth obesity on U … the BMI of the child's biological mother. IV estimates indicate that obesity raises annual medical care costs by $1 …,354 (in 2013 dollars) or 159%, which is considerably higher than previous estimates of the association of youth obesity with …

The effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on obesity have been the focus of much debate … quasi-experimental variation in SNAP benefit amount on adult obesity. Children of SNAP households qualify for free in … for SNAP households. We find that increases in SNAP benefits have no effect on obesity levels for the full sample of those …

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. explains about ten 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 price …

, and public health officials should treat the obesity epidemic as a matter of indifference. In this paper, we show that, as … long as insurance premiums are not risk rated for obesity, health insurance coverage systematically shields those covered … show that under regime (1), there is no obesity externality. Under regime (2), where there is an obesity externality, all …