obesity, income and gender. Obesity changes with income, but in a non-linear way. On average, obesity increases with income in … poor countries, has no relationship with income in middle-income countries and decreases with income for rich countries …. Within countries, obesity is concentrated among richer groups in low-income countries and evenly distributed in middle-income …

earnings and employment and increases social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples …

income growth from 1950 to 1980 as a proxy for socioeconomic forces that created unbalanced physical growth among southern … children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the …

in the 1950s through the 1980s to unbalanced physical development. Here we use state-level data for whites on income … physical growth, the ratio of median household income in 1980 to that in 1950, has a large systematic influence on CVD … mortality, an impact that increases dramatically with age. The income ratio combined with smoking, obesity, and education …