yxwvutsrp CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN THE U.S.: HOW EFFECTIVE ARE SCHOOL PREVENTION PROGRAMS? Christiane Schroeter and R.I. Carreira 1 Selected Paper Presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting Portland, Oregon, July 29- August 1, 2007 Copyright 2007 by Christiane Schroeter and R.I. Carreira. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 1 Authors are Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Arkansas State University, and Research Associate II, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas. Senior authorship is shared. The authors wish to thank Dr. Bruce Dixon and Dr. H.L. Goodwin for their insightful suggestions. Contact: R.I. Carreira, University of Arkansas, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, 223 Agriculture Building, Fayetteville, AR 72701, Phone: (479) 575-3253, Fax: (479) 575-5306, E-mail: rcarrei@uark.edu