| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w7423 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 7423 |
| The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change | |
| Tomas J. Philipson; Richard A. Posner | |
| 发表日期 | 1999-11-01 |
| 出版年 | 1999 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries, obesity has grown with modest rises in calorie consumption and with a substantial increase in both dieting and recreational exercise. We consider the economic incentives that give rise to a growth in obesity by stimulating intake of calories while discouraging the expending of calories on physical activity. We argue that technological change provides a natural interpretation of the long-run growth in obesity despite a rise in dieting and exercise, that it predicts that the effect of income on obesity falls with economic development, and that it implies that the growth in obesity may be self-limiting. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7423 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/564964 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tomas J. Philipson,Richard A. Posner. The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change. 1999. |
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| w7423.pdf（1642KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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