distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and … income gradient of individual body weight growth (i.e. the relationship between income and BMI growth) follows an inverted U … could not find clear evidence that the income-BMI-growth gradient has already shifted. Turning points have not yet been …

clean air. We expand the Kuznets curve to an ‘Obesity Kuznets curve’; as incomes rise, resources become available to buy … more food. As such, people consume more calories and obesity rates increase. However, as incomes continue to rise, personal … health becomes a more valued asset and people decrease their obesity levels (increasing their health levels). We find …

. 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 … consideration and conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse U-shaped. In other words …

. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced … data for the 1980-2009 period. We conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse …

. 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 … consideration and conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse U-shaped. In other words …