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Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty

Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014

not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …

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A weighty issue revisited: The dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - 2014

We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …

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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010

We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...

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Obesity and Happiness

Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

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Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2010

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life...

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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010

obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …

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How cohabitation, marriage, separation and divorce influence BMI: A prospective panel study

Mata, Jutta; Richter, David; Schneider, Thorsten; … - 2018

Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926...

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Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity: Evidence from German neighborhoods

Dang, Rui - 2015

This paper is the first to estimate the causal effect of local human capital stock on individual adiposity and adds to the existing literature on estimating human capital externalities at the neighborhood level. We explore the possible causal pathways that college-educated neighbors exert on...

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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