Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

low and medium income and with an overweight father seem to react most strongly to differences in daycare supply. …

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper … social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …

estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from …, which exploits genetic variation in weight as a natural experiment, yields estimates of the impact of obesity on medical … costs that are considerably higher than the correlations reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is …