We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are … economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency … obesity trends, and conclude with a brief review of current policies to reduce and prevent excessive body weight both in …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

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 …