Economic Aspects of Obesity /

In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the United States has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled, which may lead to increased medical expenditures, productivity loss, and stress on the health care system. Economic analysis now shows that weight gain is the resul...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bhattacharya, Jay (Contribuidor), Bundorf, M. Kate (Contribuidor), Cawley, John (Contribuidor), Chaloupka, Frank J. (Contribuidor), Chen, Zhuo (Contribuidor), Ford, O. T. (Contribuidor), Gao, Qin (Contribuidor), Gary, Lisa C. (Contribuidor), Goldman, Dana (Contribuidor), Gregory, Christian A. (Contribuidor), Grossman, Michael (Contribuidor, Editor ), Kaestner, Robert (Contribuidor), Kaushal, Neeraj (Contribuidor), Lakdawalla, Darius (Contribuidor), Liu, Gilbert (Contribuidor), McInnes, Melayne M. (Contribuidor), Meltzer, David O. (Contribuidor), Mennemeyer, Stephen (Contribuidor), Mocan, Naci (Contribuidor, Editor ), Ottensmann, John (Contribuidor), Pace, Noemi (Contribuidor), Powell, Lisa M. (Contribuidor), Price, Joshua A. (Contribuidor), Ruhm, Christopher J. (Contribuidor), Sandy, Robert (Contribuidor), Sen, Bisakha (Contribuidor), Shinogle, Judith A. (Contribuidor), Sood, Neeraj (Contribuidor), Tchernis, Rusty (Contribuidor), Tekin, Erdal (Contribuidor), Wilson, Jeff (Contribuidor), Yarnoff, Benjamin (Contribuidor), Zheng, Yuhui (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Temas:
Body mass index.
Obesity > Economic aspects > Congresses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
economy, economics, fat, overweight, obese, weight, adult, united states, usa, america, american, regional, western world, contemporary, modern, 21st, century, 20th, medical, medicine, doctor, food, eating, recreation, health, wage, money, wealth, income, finance, financial, essay collection, anthology, academic, scholarly, research, insurance, bmi.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
  • 2. Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?
  • 3. Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight
  • 4. Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
  • 5. Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
  • 6. The Relationship between Perceptions of Neighborhood Characteristics and Obesity among Children
  • 7. Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic with Natural Experiments
  • 8. Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices
  • 9. Physical Activity
  • 10. Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment
  • 11 Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?
  • 12. Obesity, Self- Esteem, and Wages
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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