Kristjana Baldursdottir; McNamee, Paul; Norton, Edward C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
models are estimated for women and men separately, with mother's education as an instrument to account for the potential … endogeneity in income. Results suggest that the optimal own BMI is 27.4 and 22.7 for men and women, respectively. The annual value … underweight men to $43,175 for obese men. Women on average value changes in their own BMI about three times higher than changes in …