دانلود کتاب Economic Aspects of Obesity

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Contents......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction / Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan......Page 14
1. The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States / David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen......Page 30
2. Does Health Insurance Make You Fat? / Jay Bhattacharya, M. Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood......Page 48
3. Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight / Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng......Page 78
4. Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss / John Cawley and Joshua A. Price......Page 104
5. Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index / Lisa M. Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka......Page 140
6. The Relationship between Perceptions of Neighborhood Characteristics and Obesity among Children / Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer, and Lisa C. Gary......Page 158
7. Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic with Natural Experiments / Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson, and O. T. Ford......Page 194
8. Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices / Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao......Page 236
9. Physical Activity: Economic and Policy Factors / Melayne M. McInnes and Judith A. Shinogle......Page 262
10. Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment / Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, and Benjamin Yarnoff......Page 296
11. Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite? / Christian A. Gregory and Christopher J. Ruhm......Page 328
12. Obesity, Self-Esteem, and Wages / Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin......Page 362
Contributors......Page 394
Author Index......Page 398
Subject Index......Page 404