A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … obesity, using the US Health and Retirement Study. Whilst we find that obesity leads to chronic diseases that reduce length of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …

) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra … in young adult obesity rates as a result of the income transfers, while the BMI of poorer children increases. Part of …

We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a … significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after controlling for a rich set of demographic …, socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral variables. After instrumenting with parental obesity the associations are no longer …

obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of …

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to …

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 …