TY  - JOUR
AU  - Philipson,Tomas
AU  - Posner,Richard
TI  - Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14010
PY  - 2008
Y2  - May 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14010
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14010.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Tomas Philipson
Irving B. Harris Graduate School
of Public Policy Studies
The University of Chicago
1155 E 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/502-7773
E-Mail: t-philipson@uchicago.edu

Richard Posner
United States Court of Appeals
E-Mail: Richard_Posner@ca7.uscourts.gov
AB  - The world-wide and ongoing rise in obesity has generated enormous popular interest and policy concern in developing countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations. As a consequence, there has been a rapidly growing field of economic analysis of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. This paper discusses some of the central themes of this decade long research program, aiming at synthesizing the different strands of the literature, and to point to future research that seems particularly productive.
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