Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay To Reduce Childhood Obesity

John Cawley

NBER Working Paper No. 12510
Issued in September 2006

---- Acknowledgements -----

I gratefully acknowledge financial support from Cornell Cooperative Extension and a Smith-Lever grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I thank Rachel Dunifon, Eric Finkelstein, John Komlos, Dean Lillard, Melayne Morgan McInnes, Sean Nicholson, Greg Poe, Judy Shinogle, Josephine Swanson, the Cornell Obesity Working Group for helpful comments, and three anonymous referees. I also thank Yasamin Miller and the Survey Research Center at Cornell University for survey pre-testing and data collection. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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