obesity, and investigates how this effect changes over the life cycle. The impact of individuals’ health behaviours on their … obesity status later in life is also studied. …

This paper is concerned with how obesity and some of its determinants develop over individuals’ life cycles. In … status) and individuals’ own education as adults and how their impacts on the probability of overweight and obesity evolves … 65 at the time of the survey. Obesity indicators are constructed from information collected in the survey regarding …

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in … China and investigates how and why the SES-obesity gradient differs with age. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the … subsamples stratified by living area reveal that the SES gaps of obesity are generally larger for urban residents than rural …