.31%, and further increases the overweight and obesity rates by 0.89 and 0.19 percentage points, respectively. Our paper …We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and … identifies a new cause of obesity, and sheds new light on the morbidity cost of air pollution …

employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for …Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … grandparenting could have beneficial effects on childhood obesity …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When … happiness. For overweight men the influence is ambiguous but more speaks in favour of a less level of satisfaction. Overweight …

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare … prepregnancy obesity with the exception of LGA, SGA, low birth weight and preterm birth. We find that prepregnancy obesity is …

Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain … the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal impact of economic insecurity on obesity …-level increase in obesity …

explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample … of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual … adolescents whose peers have a higher BMI are less likely to consider themselves overweight, suggesting that peer effects may be …

prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are … distribution-sensitive measures of overweight which indicates that the severity of overweight has been higher for the poor than the … distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …