Webbink, Dinand; Martin, N.G.; Visscher, P.M. - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2008
This paper analyses the causal effect of education on the probability of being overweight by using longitudinal data of Australian identical twins. The data include self-reported and clinical measures of body size.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is growing rapidly in many countries....