Obesity and the rate of time preference: Is there a connection?

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-219

  Komlos, John ^a   Smith, Patricia K ^b   Bogin, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONEY; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; OBESITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542284514     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932003006205     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Allison, D., Fontaine, K., Manson, J., Stevens, J. & VanItallie, T. (1999) Annual deaths attributable to obesity in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association 282(16), 1530-1538.
2. Barsky, R., Juster, F., Kimball, M. & Shapiro, M. (1997) Preference parameters and behavioral heterogeneity: an experimental approach in the health and retirement study. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(2), 537-579.
3. Becker, G. (1964) Human Capital. Columbia University Press, New York.
4. Becker, G. & Mulligan, C. (1997) The endogenous determination of time preference. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(3), 729-758.
5. Bergmann, K. & Mensink, G. (1999) Körpermaße und Übergewicht. Gesundheitswesen (Special Issue 2), 115-120.
6. Bishai, D. (2001) Lifecycle changes in the rate of time preference: testing the theory of endogenous preferences and its relevance to adolescent substance abuse. In Grossman, M. & Hsieh, C. (eds) The Economics of Substance Abuse. Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, pp. 155-177.
7. Blaylock, J., Smallwood, S., Kassel, K., Variyam, J. & Aldrich, L. (1999) Economics, food choices, and nutrition. Food Policy 24, 269-286.
8. Bleichrodt, H. & Gafni, A. (1996) Time preference, the discounted utility model and health. Journal of Health Economics 15, 49-66.
9. Colditz, G. (1992) Economic costs of obesity. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 55, 5035-5075.
10. Cutler, D. M., Glaeser, E. L. & Shapiro, J. M. (2003) Why Have Americans Become More Obese? NBER Working Paper No. W9446, January.
11. Ehrlich, I. & Chuma, H. (1990) A model of the demand for longevity and the value of life extension. Journal of Political Economy 98(4), 761-782.
12. Flegal, K., Carroll, M., Kuczmarksi, R. & Johnson, C. (1998) Overweight and obesity trends in the United States: Prevalence and trends, 1960-1994. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders 22(1), 39-47.
13. Fuchs, V. (1986) The Health Economy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
14. Fuchs V. (1991) Time preference and health: an exploratory study. In Culyer, A. J. (ed.) The Economics of Health, Vol. I. Edward Elgar Publishing, Great Yarmouth, pp. 93-150.
15. Fulwood, R., Abraham, S. & Johnson, C. (1981) Height and Weight of Adults, Ages 18-74 Years, by Socioeconomic and Geographic Variables, United States. DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 81-1674, National Center for Health Statistics.
16. Gafni, A. (1995) Time in health: can we measure individuals' 'pure time preferences'? Medical Decision Making 15(1), 31-37.
17. Grossman, M. (1972) The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York.
18. Johannesson, M. & Johansson, P. (1997) The value of life extension and the marginal rate of time preference: a pilot study. Applied Economics Letters 4(1), 53-55.
19. Lakdawalla, D. & Philipson, T. (2002) The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination. NBER Working Paper 8946.
20. Lawrance, E. (1991) Poverty and the rate of time preference: evidence from panel data. Journal of Political Economy 99(1), 54-77.
21. Levy, A. (2002) Rational eating: can it lead to overweightness or underweightness? Journal of Health Economics 21, 887-899.
22. McGinnis, J. & Foege, W. (1993) Actual causes of deaths in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association 270(18), 2207-2222.
23. Maital, S. & Maital, S. (1977) Time preference, delay and gratification and the intergenerational transmission of economic inequality: a behavioral theory in income distribution In Ashenfeltar, O. & Oates, W. (eds) Essays in Labor Market Analysis in Memory of Yochanan Peter Comay. Wiley Publishing, New York, pp. 179-200.
24. Mokdad, A., Serdula, M., Dietz, W., Bowman, B., Marks, J. & Koplan, J. (1999) The spread of the obesity epidemic in the United States, 1991-1998. Journal of the American Medical Association 282(16), 1519-1522.
25. Molarius, A., Sans, S., Tuomilehto, J. & Kuulasmaa, K. (2000) Educational level, relative body weight, and changes in their association over 10 years: an international perspective from the WHO MONICA project. American Journal of Public Health 90(8), 1260-1268.
26. National Center for Health Statistics (2000) Health, United States 2000.
27. National Gambling Impact Study Commission. National Gambling Impact Study: Final Report (1999).
28. Offner, A. (2001) Body weight and self-control in the United States and Britain since the 1950s. Social History of Medicine 14(1), 79-106.
29. Pagan, J. & Davila, A. (1997) Obesity, occupational attainment, and earnings. Social Science Quarterly 78(3), 756-770.
30. Parker, J. (1999) Spendthrifts in America? On two decades of decline in the U.S. saving rate. In Bernanke, B. & Rotemberg, J. (eds) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1999. MIT Press, Boston, pp. 317-370.
31. Philipson, T. (2001) The world-wide growth in obesity: an economic research agenda. Health Economics 10(1), 1-7.
32. Philipson, T. & Posner, R. (1999) The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change. John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics Working Paper No. 78. University of Chicago Law School, 1999.
33. Popkin, B. & Doak, C. (1998) The obesity epidemic is a worldwide phenomenon. Nutrition Reviews 56(4), 106-114.
34. Samwick, A. (1998) Discount rate heterogeneity and social security reform. Journal of Development Economics 57, 117-146.
35. Sobal, J. & Stunkard, A. (1989) Socioeconomic status and obesity: a review of the literature. Psychological Bulletin 105(2), 260-275.
36. Van Der Pol, M. & Cairns, J. (2000) Negative and zero time preference for health. Health Economics 9, 171-175.
37. Ulijaszek, S. (2003) Trends in body size, diet and food availability in the Cook Islands in the second half of the 20th century. Economics and Human Biology 1, 123-137.
38. Zagorsky, J. (unpublished) Is obesity as dangerous to your wealth as to your health? Ohio State University, Center for Human Resource Research.