significant employment penalty. Both genders experience a significant income penalty for obesity. We conclude that the penalties …

This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since … manufacturing productivities, and BMI could be cubic, we take the results of the long-difference quadratic specification into …

is provided. Fourth, obesity benefits and wealth-signaling value are commonly overestimated, raising the cost of healthy …I study the economic value of obesity - a seemingly inconsequential but unhealthy status symbol in poor countries …. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I make four findings. First, obesity is …

the risk of obesity are sensitive to whether BMI or waist circumference is used to define obesity. Education and two … obesity defined using waist circumference, an educational gradient, which is not present when classifying men using BMI …Body-mass index (BMI), sometimes calculated from objectively measured and sometimes from self-reported weight and …

Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health … problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have … the level of, and five-year change in, BMI. Decomposing the freedom index into sub-indices measuring economic freedom in …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … increase in obesity. …