significant employment penalty. Both genders experience a significant income penalty for obesity. We conclude that the penalties …

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 … the risk of obesity are sensitive to whether BMI or waist circumference is used to define obesity. Education and two … obesity defined using waist circumference, an educational gradient, which is not present when classifying men using BMI …

-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 …