Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper … social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …

the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and inter-racial couples. We consider the …

height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of … industry affiliation as an instrument for income. We demonstrate that industry affiliation is correlated with fixed individual …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …