We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a …

OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches …

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …

history, psychological factors and health, we estimate differences in job search behavior and labor market outcomes between … training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy … weight women. Obese women who found a job also had significantly lower wages than healthy weight women. …