Mosca, Irene - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 522-533
measures of fatness: BMI and waist circumference entered linearly as continuous variables and obesity as a categorical variable … defined using both BMI and waist circumference. Controls for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, socioeconomic … elasticity associated with waist circumference is larger than the elasticity associated with BMI. The results for men indicate …