We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours before retirement, with consequences for … individual health. Using the exogenous variation in minimum retirement age induced by a sequence of Italian pension reforms … consequences on obesity and self-reported satisfaction with health. …

We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic …

incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of PRP …

expectations and expected employment probabilities, the variability of these expectations within a field of study and their … variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

more intensively treated tracks experienced a decline in the probability of employment during the year following high …