obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …

risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …

risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …

The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic … amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural … locational disadvantage of the rural people. The paper follows the framework of Sen’s Capability Approach to development. …

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between obesity and wages, using data for nine countries … adopting a Quantile Regression approach to characterize the heterogenous impact of obesity at different points of the wage … heterogeneity as the relationship between obesity and wages differs across countries and wages quantiles and ii) cultural …

obesity-related health risks. For given diseases, we document substantial heterogeneities in the accuracy of expectations …

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence … of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie …

play in future research in the economics of obesity. …

actually causes obesity. In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to test whether … is no causal relationship between credit card debt and overweight or obesity for either men or women. However, we find … suggestive evidence that having trouble paying bills may be a cause of obesity for women. …