affected by overweight and obesity. Leading causes for this development are changes in food consumption and lifestyle patterns …

2017. The results show that the receipt of an inheritance is negatively associated with BMI, and being overweight among …Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and … probability of being overweight by 2.8% among women, and it increases the probability of women engaging in activities that involve …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height … from care-givers. There are gender specific relationships between BMI and marital status, and after controlling for height …

effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future. Many household experienced a … significant wealth shocks, but these shocks led to modest spending effects and small revisions to expectations regarding future … bequests. Expectations of bequests seem particularly tied to housing wealth. …