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 …

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 …

Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

This paper presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …

to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … because of the potential for self-selection bias. In this paper, we use a natural experiment, comparing successful and … hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly …