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 … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

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

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 …

as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

.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 … Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic information for 13,226 adult individuals over …

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 … newly developed Economic Security Index (ESI) with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES …

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 …

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 …

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 have …