An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

By Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, H. Saffer. Journal of Health Economics, 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, neutral): “For example, Rous-associated virus-7 (RAV-7), an avian retrovirus, causes stunted growth, obesity, and hyperlipidemia in chickens ( Carter et al, 1983 a,b).”
An Economic Analysis of Participation and Time Spent in Physical Activity (2011, background): “(Eisenberg and Okeke (2009), Chou et al. (2004), and Ruhm (2005) are a few examples).”
Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity (2011, methodology): “Theory The most obvious reason for suspecting a causal relationship between Walmart Supercenters and obesity is simple: Supercenters lead to cheap food (Hausman and Liebtag, 2009; Basker and Noel, 2007) and cheap food leads to weight gain (Philipson and Posner, 2003; Lakdawalla and Philipson, 2002; ”
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility (2009, neutral): “Chou et al (2004) examines the role of restaurant-food prices.”
Social dynamics of obesity (2007, positive): “For men, 95th (99th)-percentile weight increased from 230 (264) to 277 (338) pounds, and the average increased from 177 to 192 pounds between NHANES II and NHANES 99 as shown in Table 1.”
How Does Time Poverty Affect Behavior? A Look at Eating and Physical Activity (2013, background): “…decline in food prices and the increase in the availability of fast D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /aepp/article-abstract/35/1/89/8235 by guest on 15 M arch 2020 food and restaurant meals, and Chou et al. (2004) point to the increased price of cigarettes and the reduction in smoking.”
THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF OBESITY: A SURVEY (2008, neutral): “Coate found that calories, parental fatness, and age and race differences between obese and non-obese youth explain less than one-half of the overweight growth differential.13 Socio-economic effects (family income, mother’s education or family size) on diet were significant for older children (10–16”
The Impact of Food Away From Home on Adult Diet Quality (2012, background): “For example, Chou et al. (2004) regress individual Body Mass Index (BMI) and obesity status on the State-level number of restaurants and food prices.”
Contribution of food prices and diet cost to socioeconomic disparities in diet quality and health: a systematic review and analysis (2015, background): “The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) was designed to find foods and combinations of foods that met dietary recommendations, respected the current eating habits of lower-income Americans, and minimized cost.129 The price of TFP market baskets has long served to define the a”
The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain (2009, neutral): “6 Chou et al. (2004) estimate models combining state-level price data with individual demographic and weight data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance surveys and find a positive association between obesity and the per capita number of restaurants (fast food and others) in the state. Rashad,”