In the following paper we estimate the impact of obesity in childhood on health and health service use in England using … England (1998-2012), which has measures of self-assessed health, primary care use, prescribed medication use, and nurse …-measured height and weight. We use instruments for child obesity using genetic variation in weight. We detect a few potential issues …

Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese …. Understanding whether obesity is associated with adverse labor market outcomes and ascertaining the source of these outcomes are …

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in … China and investigates how and why the SES-obesity gradient differs with age. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the … China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I find that body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with SES during early …

This paper estimates the impacts of weight, measured by body mass index (BMI), on employment, wages, and missed work … biases due to endogeneity in BMI. The results show an inverted U-shaped effect of BMI on probability of employment for men … and women. We did not find evidence of wage penalty for higher BMI. In fact, the wages for overweigh men are higher …

importance of obesity on the timing of bankruptcy. Even after accounting for possible endogeneity of BMI and controlling for a …Over the last two decades, both bankruptcy and obesity rates in the U.S. have seen a steady rise. As obesity is one of …

Although adult body mass index (BMI) displays considerable social patterning worldwide, the direction and strength of … the relationship between BMI and socioeconomic status (SES) varies cross nationally. We examine social gradients in BMI … for contemporary U.S. immigrants and evaluate whether their SES-BMI gradient patterns are shaped by underlying gradients …