significant and negative impact on body mass index and the probability of being overweight for males, while no significant impact …

lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of overweight and obesity. However, recent literature started questioning the … overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …

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 … China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I find that body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with SES during early …

explain around 8% at most of the definite increase in BMI observed over the period. The main reason for this appears to be … that the quantitative magnitude of the effect of the physical strenuousness of work on BMI is rather moderate. Hence …, according to the point estimates, BMI is only around 1.5% lower when one’s current occupation is physically very demanding and …

In this paper, we re-examine the relationship between overweight and labour market success, using indicators of … individual body composition along with BMI (Body Mass Index). We use the dataset from Finland in which weight, height, fat mass … circumference, but not weight or fat mass, has a negative effect on wages for women, whereas all measures of obesity have negative …

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by … merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution became increasingly right skewed as the distance between the centiles became … increasingly larger. The rate of change of BMI centile curves varied considerably over time. The BMI of white men and women …