lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of overweight and obesity. However, recent literature started questioning the … overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …

Although the rise in obesity and overweight is related to time constraints influencing health investments (e … the causal effect of a change in working times on overweight and obesity drawing from evidence from the Aubrey reform … times on body weight. Our results show evidence of 0.7% increase in average BMI an 8pp increase in the probability of …

The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known … the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in earnings, which amounts to about 18 percent, is linked to supply …-side characteristics that are associated with both earnings and obesity. In particular, we show that the penalty reflects negative …

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of … serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether overweight or obese individuals demand more medical care than normal …

distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient … 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 …

obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer … the hiring process. However, whether overweight job applicants also face employer discrimination is still an open question … overweight. Applications with a photo of the weight-manipulated male receive significantly fewer callbacks for a job interview …

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

Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the … National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare absenteeism among overweight and obese workers to absenteeism among normal … about 1.3 (1.5) percentage points among obese (overweight) individuals. Disaggregated regressions suggest that the effect is …