Abstract Description of the consumer food environment has proliferated in publication.
However, there has been a lack of systematic reviews focusing on how the consumer food …

Background Obesity is a major public health problem whose prevalence has been rapidly
increasing in the United States (US), and globally. It is one of the leading causes of …

Childhood and adolescent obesity is associated with serious adverse lifetime health
consequences and its prevalence has increased rapidly. Soft drink consumption has also …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly
universal coverage through a combination of insurance market reforms, mandates, and …

This article explores the relationship between time preferences, economic incentives and
body mass index (BMI). We provide evidence of an interaction effect between time …

Researchers have linked the rise in obesity to technological progress reducing the
opportunity cost of food consumption and increasing the opportunity cost of physical activity …

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 …

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United
States. We consider self‐reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use …

Abstract Background The potential of Mendelian randomization studies is rapidly expanding
due to:(i) the growing power of genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analyses to …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body mass index (BMI) using data
from the Lung Health Study, a randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. Since …