Economic aspects of obesity / edited by Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description
xii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan
    • The impact of minimum wage rates on body weight in the United States / David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen
    • Does health insurance make you fat? / Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood
    • Food prices and the dynamics of body weight / Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng
    • Outcomes in a program that offers financial rewards for weight loss / John Cawley and Joshua A. Price
    • Economic contextual factors and child body mass index
    • Lisa M. Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka
    • The relationship between perceptions of neighborhood characteristics and obesity among children / Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer, and Lisa C. Gary
    • Studying the child obesity epidemic with natural experiments / Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson, and O.T. Ford
    • Food stamp program and consumption choices / Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao
    • Physical activity: economic and policy factors / Melayne M. McInnes and Judith A. Shinogle
    • Effects of weight on adolescent educational attainment / Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, and Benjamin Yarnoff
    • Where does the wage penalty bite? / Christian A. Gregory and Christopher J. Ruhm
    • Obesity, self-esteem, and wages / Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin.
    ISBN
    • 9780226310091 (alk. paper)
    • 0226310094 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010047674
    OCLC
    666234956
    Other standard number
    • 40019362528
    RCP
    C - S
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