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  • David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen, Economic Aspects of Obesity (University of Chicago Press, 2011), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economic-aspects-obesity/impact-minimum-wage-rates-body-weight-united-states.

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