United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

males. The results suggest that obesity has the most significant impact on white women's wages …

BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences for men. In this paper, we relax the … models that allow earnings to vary with BMI in a highly flexible manner. For women, the results show that earnings peak at …) models or specifications focusing on long-lags of BMI are more similar to those for women. The findings for females (and the …

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

acquisition and expectations, but these results are markedly different for young men and young women. Shortly after completing the … substantially more likely to be searching for another job. On the other hand, women experience improved labor market outcomes in the … short run and exhibit substantially higher levels of personal skills in the long run. These results translate into women …

Recent lab and field experiments suggest that women are less effective than men in a competitive environment. In this … in teachers' awareness and familiarity with the program and its rules, and in effort and teaching methods. Women though …

Globally, men and women face markedly different risks of obesity. In all but of handful of (primarily Western European …) countries, obesity is more prevalent among women than men. In this paper, we examine several potential explanations for this … phenomenon. We analyze differences between men and women in reports and effects of the proximate causes of obesity -- physical …

In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …