lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. The applied regression …

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …

indicates that looks, rather than health, is the driving force behind the adverse labor market outcomes to which overweight … not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This … women are subject. Further support is lent to this notion by the fact that wage penalties for overweight and obese women are …

schooling is stronger among overweight than among obese females. …

. Critically, this latter threshold increases with partner's BMI when the individual is overweight. The negative well-being impact …

We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and … obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …

on earnings. Our finding of an implied optimum bmi in the overweight range could indicate that the recent rise in weight …

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … the impact of overweight on subjective well being. The Hausman test is employed in the univariate and multivariate … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

With the health care reform of the year 2004 in mind and coming from a multidimensional conception of poverty the … interrelation between income poverty and health care is analysed. The undertaken analyses show that the interrelation did increase … in the years subsequent to the health care reform of the year 2004. Mit Blick auf die Gesundheitsreform 2004 und …