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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 1/2017

01-04-2017 | Editorial

The High and Rising Costs of Obesity to the US Health Care System

Authors: Adam Biener, PhD, John Cawley, PhD, Chad Meyerhoefer, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Special Issue 1/2017

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The papers in this special issue examine behavioral, pharmacotherapy, and surgical interventions for weight loss, based on a 2016 conference on state-of-the-art weight management hosted by the Veterans Health Administration. The purpose of this editorial is to provide new information on the medical care costs of obesity that help motivate those interventions. …
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Specifically, we estimated two-part IV models of health care costs in which the BMI of a biological child serves as an instrument for the BMI of the adult MEPS respondent. Given the nature of the instrument, the MEPS sample is limited to adults who have a biological child living in their household. The age restriction for adults is 20-64 years and that for biological children is 11-20 years.  For more details on the models and data, please see Cawley and Meyerhoefer (2012) and Cawley, Meyerhoefer, and Biener (2015).
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Metadata
Title
The High and Rising Costs of Obesity to the US Health Care System
Authors
Adam Biener, PhD
John Cawley, PhD
Chad Meyerhoefer, PhD
Publication date
01-04-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue Special Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3968-8

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