Byth, Sophie; Frijters, Paul; Beatton, Tony - In: Oxford open economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-14
We examine whether low self-esteem increases the risk of obesity in a panel of Australian adults. To address the … problem of endogeneity, we look at weight changes following exogenous shocks to self-esteem, such as the unexpected death of … friends and family members. We find that negative shocks adversely affect self-esteem in turn leading to large increases in …