Atella, Vincenzo; Kopinska, Joanna - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011
In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as theoretical reference an energy balance model. Our data consist of individual level data from eight waves of the Italian survey on life-styles. We use Quantile Regression (QR)...