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Economic aspects of obesity / edited by Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan.
LIBRA RA645.O23 E26 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity--Economic aspects--Congresses.
- Obesity.
- Obesity--economics.
- United States.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Body Mass Index.
- Data Collection--methods.
- Models, Statistical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Obesity--economics.
- United States.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Body Mass Index.
- Data Collection--methods.
- Models, Statistical.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226310091
- 0226310094
- OCLC:
- 666234956
- Publisher Number:
- 99967220630
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