Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health …

height, has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems … BMI is a deficient measure of body fat and elevated health risks (misclassification). Using a regional Swedish sample, we … the risk of obesity are sensitive to whether BMI or waist circumference is used to define obesity. Education and two …

-related inequalities in obesity. By use of the concentration index and decomposition techniques we answer the following questions: 1) Does … obesity inequality favour or disfavour the poor? 2) What factors explain this inequality at different points in time? 3) How … can the pattern of inequality over time be explained? We find that among females, inequalities in obesity favour the rich …

significant employment penalty. Both genders experience a significant income penalty for obesity. We conclude that the penalties … are associated with lower productivity, primarily in terms of health. We find no evidence of discrimination. …

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an … instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and … health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and …

education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … works through improving children's skills and health. …

last few decades. There is therefore a need for effective strategies to promote health and to reduce the prevalence of diet … depart from a household production model. To control for the endogeneity of the health state, we use a control function … approach. The result suggests that health inputs, such as low-fat meat and a larger amount of vegetables, increase respondents …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

using household indicators on expenditures, educational level, health status and land holdings. The purpose is to assess …