Economic Aspects of Obesity
- Contents

Introduction
Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan
1. The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen
2. Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?
Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood
3. Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight
Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng
4. Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
John Cawley and Joshua A. Price
5. Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
Lisa M. Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka
6. The Relationship between Perceptions of Neighborhood Characteristics and Obesity among Children
Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer, and Lisa C. Gary
7. Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic with Natural Experiments
Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson, and O. T. Ford
8. Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices
Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao
9. Physical Activity: Economic and Policy Factors
Melayne M. McInnes and Judith A. Shinogle
10. Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment
Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, and Benjamin Yarnoff
11. Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?
Christian A. Gregory and Christopher J. Ruhm
12. Obesity, Self- Esteem, and Wages
Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Economics and Business: Health Economics
Sociology: Sociology--Marriage and Family
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