WOMENS Healthworks developed the Body Esteem program (BEP) in 2005 to respond to consumer need for accessible and community-based services for women living with an eating disorder. Core services include: -20 week facilitated self-help groups for women over the age of 18 with Anorexia/Bulimia Nervosa or Binge Eating Disorder An Education and Support Workshop for family members or loved ones Posi...

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA. 2 Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. 3 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. 4 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. 5 Department of Biostati...

In this paper we describe the relationship between SNAP and food consumption. We first present the neoclassical framework for analyzing in-kind transfers, which unambiguously predicts that SNAP will increase food consumption, and then describe the SNAP benefit formula. We then present new evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey on food spending patterns among households overall, SNAP reci...

THE LABOR MARKET in the United States is marked by considerable year-to-year variation in individual earnings.' In theory, variation in the earnings of family heads need not be a source of welfare loss to families. Families can rely on their own savings, the labor supply of other family members, and government tax and transfer programs to smooth this variation, so that family consumption remain...

This paper establishes new results regarding control problems for parametrized families of pairs ( 'systems') {(A(x), B(x)),xeX}, where A(x) is an n x n and B(x) is an n x m real matrix for each x (with n,m fixed integers), and the parameter x belongs to a manifold X. To be found is a new parametrized family {K(x),x~X} such that a given design criterion is satisfied by the closed-loop matrix A(...

International migration impacts origin regions in many ways. As examples, remittances from distant migrants may alter consumption patterns within sending communities, while exposure to different cultural norms may alter other behaviors. This paper combines these insights to offer a unique lens on migration's environmental impact. From an environmental perspective, we ask the following question:...