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  1. Does Anything Work to Reduce Obesity? (Yes, Modestly)
  2. Authors’ response: Regarding the paper ‘The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods’ by Cawley et al.
  3. The effect of rising obesity on eligibility to serve in the U.S. public health service commissioned corps
  4. The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods
  5. INCENTIVES FOR WELLNESS: TACKLING ISSUES OF EFFECTIVENESS, BIOLOGY, SCOPE, AND COST SHIFTING
  6. THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PERMITS GREATER FINANCIAL REWARDS FOR WEIGHT LOSS: A GOOD IDEA IN PRINCIPLE, BUT MANY PRACTICAL CONCERNS REMAIN
  7. The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
  8. A case study of a workplace wellness program that offers financial incentives for weight loss
  9. The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
  10. The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
  11. The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control
  12. Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A search for mechanisms in time use data
  13. The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
  14. The medical care costs of obesity: An instrumental variables approach
  15. The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
  16. The Economics of Obesity
  17. The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity
  18. Agricultural Policy and Childhood Obesity
  19. UNFIT FOR SERVICE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RISING OBESITY FOR US MILITARY RECRUITMENT
  20. The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
  21. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
  22. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors11We thank the editors of this Handbook, Pedro Pita Barros, Tom McGuire, and Mark Pauly, for their feedback and helpful guidance. We also thank the other authors in this volume for their valuable feedback and comm...
  23. The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach
  24. Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
  25. The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans
  26. Strategies for Implementing School-Located Influenza Vaccination of Children: A Systematic Literature Review
  27. MONOPOLY® PRICING
  28. The timing of the rise in U.S. obesity varies with measure of fatness
  29. Obesity and labor market outcomes among legal immigrants to the United States from developing countries
  30. Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
  31. Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness
  32. Obesity and skill attainment in early childhood
  33. Body Weight and Matching With a Physically Attractive Romantic Partner
  34. Authors’ Response
  35. Contingent valuation analysis of willingness to pay to reduce childhood obesity
  36. The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
  37. Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman: To What Extent Do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives?
  38. Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood
  39. The Association of Diabetes With Job Absenteeism Costs Among Obese and Morbidly Obese Workers
  40. The production of published research by U.S. academic health economists
  41. Beyond BMI: The value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research
  42. Correlates of State Legislative Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
  43. Occupation-Specific Absenteeism Costs Associated With Obesity and Morbid Obesity
  44. The impact of state physical education requirements on youth physical activity and overweight
  45. US health economists: who we are and what we do
  46. Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
  47. Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
  48. Predicting Complications after Bariatric Surgery using Obesity-Related Co-morbidities
  49. THE CORRELATION OF YOUTH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH STATE POLICIES
  50. The Cost-effectiveness of Programs to Prevent or Reduce Obesity
  51. The earnings of U.S. health economists
  52. Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay To Reduce Childhood Obesity
  53. Health Insurance Claims Data as a Means of Assessing Reduction in Co-morbidities 6 Months after Bariatric Surgery
  54. Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research
  55. Factor substitution in nursing homes
  56. How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?
  57. Nutrition Labels and Obesity
  58. Markets and Childhood Obesity
  59. Morbid obesity and the transition from welfare to work
  60. HMO Participation in Medicare+Choice
  61. The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight
  62. The Competitive Effects of Drug Withdrawals
  63. Health insurance coverage and the macroeconomy
  64. Welfare Reform and the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children
  65. An economic framework for understanding physical activity and eating behaviors
  66. Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes
  67. Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work
  68. Lighting up and slimming down: the effects of body weight and cigarette prices on adolescent smoking initiation
  69. The Impact of Obesity on Wages
  70. Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy
  71. What explains race and gender differences in the relationship between obesity and wages?
  72. Lighting Up and Slimming Down: The Effects of Body Weight and Cigarette Prices on Adolescent Smoking Initiation
  73. The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans
  74. CMS Payments Necessary to Support HMO Participation in Medicare Managed Care
  75. CMS Payments Necessary to Support HMO Participation in Medicare Managed Care
  76. Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability
  77. The Effect of Managed Care Penetration on Treatment Patterns
  78. Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes
  79. On Policies to Reward the Value Added by Educators
  80. An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance
  81. Meritocracy in America: Wages Within and Across Occupations
  82. Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations
  83. Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education
  84. Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy
  85. Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy
  86. An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance
  87. The Economics of Childhood Obesity Policy
  88. The Labor Market Impact of Obesity
  89. Obesity, Disability, and Movement Onto the Disability Insurance Rolls
  90. Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
  91. Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
  92. The Importance of Objective Health Measures in Predicting Early Receipt of Social Security Benefits: The Case of Fatness
  93. The Ability of Various Measures of Fatness to Predict Application for Disability Insurance
  94. Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking: Evidence from a New Era
  95. Spillover effects of prescription drug withdrawals