TY  - CHAP
AB  - Five papers in the volume use economic models to predict obesity and related behaviours. Two of the papers are theoretical. Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving analyse the importance of food quality for bodyweight. Bodyweight is treated as a variable of choice – the individual derives utility from health, food consumption and consumption of a composite good. Bodyweight is assumed to decrease health whenever it differs from its physiologically optimal level. Their model implies that much of further income growth will be used to improve food quality rather than increase caloric intake.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-1-84950-482-9, 978-0-7623-1406-5/0731-2199
DO  - 10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17016-8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17016-8
AU  - Bolin Kristian
AU  - Cawley John
ED  - Kristian Bolin
ED  - John Cawley
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Introduction to the Economics of Obesity
T2  - The Economics of Obesity
T3  - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - xvii
EP  - xxiii
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -