Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyses changes in bodyweight (BMI and waist … temporal changes in bodyweight and then decompose the increase in obesity prevalence into two components: a rightward shift of … analysed reflects an increase in obesity inequality, this inequality growth subsides in the second decade. Nevertheless, over …

We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … exploit variation in a polygenic score (PGS) for BMI within two complementary econometric methods that differ in the … assumptions they employ. First, we use the BMI PGS as an IV and adjust for PGSs for other factors (depression and educational …

height among white men, but only marginally among white women. Similar analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) also shows a …

Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese …. Understanding whether obesity is associated with adverse labor market outcomes and ascertaining the source of these outcomes are …

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 …

This paper estimates the impacts of weight, measured by body mass index (BMI), on employment, wages, and missed work … biases due to endogeneity in BMI. The results show an inverted U-shaped effect of BMI on probability of employment for men … and women. We did not find evidence of wage penalty for higher BMI. In fact, the wages for overweigh men are higher …