Chapters presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Louisiana State Universityin Baton Rouge Nov. 2008.
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.
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