are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our … significant parts of the obesity disparities between these two groups. …

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems … specification checks. -- obesity ; credit card debt ; propensity score matching …

excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and … growth of excess weight. Using the concentration index we find that prevalence of overweight and obesity affected …

-30 for women). Instead of an "obesity penalty" we find evidence of an "overweight premium" in socially active jobs which is …

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

estimate a structural dynamic model of the determinants of obesity. In addition to including many of the well …-recognized endogenous factors mentioned in the literature as obesity determinants, i.e., physical activity, smoking, a proxy for food … consumption. We specify reduced form equations for all these endogenous demand decisions, together with an obesity structural …