An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence … appears to be associated with a lower likelihood of obesity, especially among women. A range of analyses of health survey data … obesity. The findings of these analyses show a broadly linear relationship between the number of years spent in full …

We examine the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the city … of time preference and the differential effects of adolescent obesity for males and females. We find that: (a) there is a … strong and robust positive association between obesity and early school leaving; (b) there is evidence to support the notion …

This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity … of obesity among adults and analyses the socioeconomic factors contributing to the problem. The associated costs of … obesity are also investigated, both in terms of health status, health care spending and absenteeism. -- obesity ; body mass …

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically …) productivity. -- wages ; body mass index ; Europe …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …

While the fraction of obese people is not as large in Europe as in the United States, obesity is becoming an important … issue in Europe as well. Using comparable data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the … Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. (HRS), we analyze the correlates of obesity in the population ages 50 and above …

This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity … of obesity among adults and analyses the socioeconomic factors contributing to the problem. The associated costs of … obesity are also investigated, both in terms of health status, health care spending and absenteeism …