Amis, John M.; Hussey, Andrew; Okunade, Albert A. - In: Applied Economics Letters 21 (2014) 13, pp. 945-950
We estimate the effects of being obese during adolescence on the likelihood of high school graduation, post-secondary educational attainment and labour market earnings as an adult (over 13 years later). We use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add...