@techreport{NBERw14010, title = "Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity", author = "Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "14010", year = "2008", month = "May", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14010", }