The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating in the
current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a …

Obesity is typically treated as a problem of public health or personal attractiveness. While
obesity is all of those things, it is even more an economic phenomenon. More than many …

Adult obesity is a growing problem. From 1962 to 2006, obesity prevalence nearly tripled to
35.1 percent of adults. The rising prevalence of obesity is not limited to a particular …

This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …

Background Consumers regularly and predictably behave in ways that contradict standard
assumptions of economic analysis such that they make decisions that prevent them from …

We develop a theoretical model to identify conditions under which price and income
changes are most likely to change weight. Although it is intuitive that raising the price of high …

This chapter explains the economic approach to studying obesity-related behaviors such as
diet and physical activity, and deals with the contribution of food prices, income, maternal …

The authors, including special contributions from health and obesity experts Marc Suhrcke,
Tim Lobstein, Donald Kenkel and Francesco Branca, challenge the perception that …

There is no doubt that obesity is a major public health problem. However, what is the
contribution of economics to solving it? In this report, we make the case that the role of …

The obesity epidemic and the growing debate about what, if any, public health policy should
be adopted is the subject of endless debates within the media and in governments around …