Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf; Lindblad, Ulf - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (2015) 1, pp. 5-20
Body-mass index (BMI) has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems related to, first, relying on self-reported weight and height to calculate BMI (misreporting), and, second, the concern that BMI is a deficient measure of body...