When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … obesity and body mass index) distribution. We draw upon longitudinal data from the United Kingdom, a country where about half …

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height … from care-givers. There are gender specific relationships between BMI and marital status, and after controlling for height …