Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments

Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeffrey Wilson, O.T. Ford

NBER Working Paper No. 14989
Issued in May 2009

---- Acknowledgments ----

We thank Shawn Hoch, Zhang Ya, Megan McDermott, Bikul Tulachan, and Jonathan Raymont for research assistance. This study was funded under NIH NIDDK grant R21 DK075577-01. We thank the participants at the Purdue University Department of Agricultural Economics seminar, at the NBER pre-conference and conference on Economic Aspects of Obesity for many helpful comments and Kristen Butcher a careful and insightful review. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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