health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …

workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate … that individuals in workplaces where women are a majority tend to report worse health than individuals employed in male …We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and …

influence on health. Women are less affected. (7) A healthy diet strengthens the resilience for individuals who are not obese …) Weight fluctuations induce negative effects on the health of women only. (10) Four of the big five components of personality …Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … relatively high shares of women. The underlying mechanisms include employment gains for women and improvements in women's health … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines …

. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …

-à-vis non-UIP districts in 1985-1990. We find that exposure to UIP in infancy increases weekly wages by 13.8% (95% CI: 7.6% to …

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … reasons why the returns on schooling are low and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy …

outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine … headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours …