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Cover -- The Economics of Obesity -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Economics of Obesity -- Part I: Predicting Obesity and Related Behaviours -- Part II: Treatments for Obesity -- Part III: Labor Market Impact of Obesity -- Part IV: Other Costs and Consequences of Obesity -- References -- Part I: Predicting Obesity and Related Behaviours -- Chapter 1. Endogenous Food Quality and Bodyweight Trend -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Model of Food Consumption and Bodyweight: Exogenous Food Quality -- 3. Endogenous Food Quality and the Bodyweight Trend -- 4. Concluding Discussions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A. Proof of (4) -- Appendix B. Proof of Lemma 1 -- Appendix C. Derivation of (8) -- Appendix D. Proof of Δ>0 -- Appendix E. Derivation of (10) -- Chapter 2. Access to Fast Food and Food Prices: Relationship with Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Overweight Among Adolescents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. A Behavioral Model of Cyclical Dieting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Bounded Rationality Approach -- 3. The Conceptual Behavioral Choice Model -- 4. The Physiology of Weight Change -- 5. Simulation Model -- 6. Simulations -- 7. Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls’ Physical Activity and Weight -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is Title IX and Did it Affect Sports Particpation? -- 3. Causal Pathways -- 4. Research Design and Methods -- 5. Data -- 6. Regression Results -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Obesity and Diabetes: The Roles that Prices and Policies Play -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Causes of Obesity -- 3. Diabetes as an Outcome -- 4. Our Food Supply -- 5. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Treatments for Obesity -- Chapter 6. Advances in Bariatric Surgery for Obesity: Laparoscopic Surgery -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Methodology -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and Final Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 7. One Pill Makes you Smaller: The Demand for Anti-Obesity Drugs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Market for Anti-Obesity Drugs -- 3. Demand for Anti-Obesity Drugs: Conceptual Issues -- 4. Hypotheses Regarding use of Anti-Obesity Drugs -- 5. Data: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey -- 6. Results -- 7. Other Findings -- 8. Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix: Brand Names of FDA-Approved Anti-Obesity Drugs -- Part III: Labor Market Impacts of Obesity -- Chapter 8. Obesity, Employment and Wages in Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Body Size and Labor Market Outcomes: Correlation and Causality -- 3. Empirical Analysis -- 4. The Role of Cultural Factors and Labor Market Institutions -- 5. Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 9. Obesity and Occupational Attainment Among the 50+ of Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 10. Gender, Body Mass, and Socioeconomic Status: New Evidence from the PSID -- 1. Previous Research on Body Mass and Socioeconomic Status -- 2. The Current Study -- 3. Data and Methods -- 4. Findings -- 5. The Body Mass Socioeconomic Status Penalties by Race and Gender -- 6. Body Mass Effects Over the Life Course -- 7. Discussion and Conclusion -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: Other Costs and Consequences of Obesity -- Chapter 11. Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. A Model of the Obesity Externality Induced by Health Insurance -- 4. Calibrating the Model -- 5. Calibration Results -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Appendix A. A Characterization of the Social Optimum -- Appendix B. Optimal Weight Loss Under Risk-Adjusted and Pooled Insurance -- Appendix C. Estimating the Medical Expenditure Distribution by Bodyweight -- Chapter 12. Obesity, Hospital Services use and Costs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Chapter 13. How much does Obesity Matter? Results from the 2001 Canadian Community Health Survey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature and Methodological Issues: A Brief Review -- 3. Statistical Procedures -- 4. Data Sources and Variables -- 5. Correlates of Self-Reported Health, Diabetes, and Heart Disease -- 6. Discussion of the Results -- 7. Policy Implications and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- .