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Summary

Human obesity rises with health and food indicators but falls with environmental and educational ones. Economic and social factors show a complex, inverted U-shaped relationship with obesity rates globally.

Keywords:

Perceived wellbeing global economy global education global environment global health global nutrition globesity information asymmetry macroeconomic policy

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Area of Science:

Socio-economics
Global Health
Behavioral Economics

Background:

Bounded rationality suggests consumers misjudge well-being factors.
Rising global obesity contrasts with increased economic and social well-being.
Obesity is a significant deterrent to welfare, often overlooked in standard of living assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

To empirically investigate the socio-economic and environmental drivers of global human obesity.
To analyze the impact of six global indices on obesity rates across diverse countries.
To provide a holistic assessment of obesity's complex global determinants.

Main Methods:

Utilized data from 40 countries spanning 1975 to 2018.
Employed Panel FGLS Regression with a quadratic specification for analysis.
Incorporated six distinct global indices to assess various socio-economic and environmental factors.

Main Results:

Health and food indicators positively correlate with increased global human obesity.
Environmental and educational indicators demonstrate a negative correlation with global human obesity.
Economic and social indicators exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship with global human obesity.

Conclusions:

Global obesity is influenced by a complex interplay of health, food, environmental, educational, economic, and social factors.
Previous research has underestimated obesity's role as a welfare deterrent.
This study offers a comprehensive, multi-index approach to understanding global obesity antecedents.