… the economics of some popular obesity-related policy proposals. Solid economic justifications
for anti-obesity policies are often lacking, and evidence suggests policies like fat and soda …

… the understanding of the problem of obesity and the impact of … causes of the obesity epidemic
from an economics perspective, … of economic evaluation evidence to guide obesity policy is …

… efforts to prevent childhood obesity, policy makers should revisit past policies to determine
whether they may be doing more harm than good when it comes to obesity. In the United …

… In this article, we review evidence on the economic consequences of obesity, the causes
of the high and rising obesity rates, and the role of government policy as a contributing cause …

… Whether public policies should be pursued that offset the ignored or unanticipated … of
previous policies that contributed to the rise in obesity will depend, in the end, on these policies’ …

… obesity has also risen considerably since 1980 (Flegal et al., 2002), this chapter focuses on
childhood obesity because it is of greater policy … to consider how school policies (such as the …

… Then, this chapter reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of selected public policies in
reducing or stemming the rise in obesity rates and internalizing market failures: price-based …

… have an obesity epidemic or learn how to deal with it until we figure out the economics of it
all… He argues that the economic situation low-income people find themselves in forces them to …

… The Centre for Economics of Obesity will adopt a shared learning approach to … economic
evaluation and decision modelling to generate economic evidence to inform local obesity policy…

… policy making with respect to obesity, in this report, we question whether the focus for the
contribution of economics … of obesity, as COI studies do, to conducting economic evaluations of …