This paper estimates the impacts of weight, measured by body mass index (BMI), onemployment, wages, and missed work due to illness for Russian adults by gender, in orderto better understand the mechanisms through which obesity affects employment, wages,and sick-leave days using recent panel data...

This paper presents evidence on the impact of individual as well as regionalcharacteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diet’sdiversity between 1994 and 2004. The results from a dynamic econometric model suggestthat among individual determinants such...