Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity

Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas; Bhattacharya, Jay

doi:10.1257/000282805774670266

Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity

Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson
Jay Bhattacharya

American Economic Review

vol. 95, no. 2, May 2005

(pp. 253-257)

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Lakdawalla, Darius, Tomas Philipson, and Jay Bhattacharya. 2005. "Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity." American Economic Review, 95 (2): 253-257. DOI: 10.1257/000282805774670266

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I12 Health Production
O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes