We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a … significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …, socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral variables. After instrumenting with parental obesity the associations are no longer …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a … significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …, socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral variables. After instrumenting with parental obesity the associations are no longer …

political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main …

We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other … associations between weight and labor market outcomes for immigrant women. Data limitations preclude efforts to address endogeneity … dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes. …

regression indicated that the risk ratio (RR) for all crashes was significantly higher for drivers in the obesity Class II and …. Similarly, the multivariate Cox Proportional Hazard model results showed that crash risk was significantly higher for obesity … class II (BMI 35 to <40; relative risk (RR) = 1.47, P = 0.02) with weaker evidence of increased crash risk for obesity class …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …