"Previous estimates on the association between body weight and wages in the literature have been contingent on education and occupation. This paper examines the direct effect of BMI on wages and the indirect effects operating through education and occupation choice, particularly for late-teen...

I study the human capital development and firm-worker matching processes for PhD economists.This group is useful for this purpose because the types of jobs they hold can be easily categorized and they have an observable roductivity measure (that is,publications.)I derive a two-period model to...