neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …

Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a … number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting … derives the following results. (1) Many combinations of weight and height lead to the same health status. (2) Obese people …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity. … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …

obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …

weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food …-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often … Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …