nationally-representative sample of young American adults to investigate the interplay between obesity, wages and self … to self-esteem to wages. We find that female wages are directly influenced by body weight, and self-esteem has an impact … on wages in case of whites. Being overweight or obese has a negative impact on the self-esteem of females and of black …

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 … levels far below the clinical threshold of "obesity" or even "overweight". For men, our main estimates suggest a reasonably …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …

acquisition and expectations, but these results are markedly different for young men and young women. Shortly after completing the …-run effects on labor market outcomes for males. While these effects seem to dissipate in the long run, employed men are … substantially more likely to be searching for another job. On the other hand, women experience improved labor market outcomes in the …

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 … were more pessimistic about the effectiveness of teachers' performance pay and more realistic than men about their …

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 …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …