Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data … change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986. Methods: We use loess additive … regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-born black and white adults measured between 1959 and …

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 …

Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI—body mass … index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences of …

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 … mass index across many genetic loci. We estimate IV models of the effect of BMI on labor market outcomes using Finnish data …

of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of …

. The effects of time discounting on body mass index (BMI) and the probabilities of being obese, severely obese, and …

populations in 36 developing countries and model its relationship with overweight (BMI≥25) among non-pregnant women ages 18–49. A …

importance of obesity on the timing of bankruptcy. Even after accounting for possible endogeneity of BMI and controlling for a …Over the last two decades, both bankruptcy and obesity rates in the U.S. have seen a steady rise. As obesity is one of …