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 …

savings (a proxy for time preferences) to BMI; and a primary survey of 885 adults conducted in West Delhi. Using quantile … the present or lower patience will have poorer health outcomes: that is, they will either be underweight (low BMI) or … overweight (high BMI). The pathway from time preferences to BMI is through food. To empirically validate these predictions, we …

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …

Obesity is an epidemic health problem in many developed countries, and it is an emerging public health concern in … individuals' knowledge concerning the health risks of obesity and their tendency to be obese (as measured by the \body mass index …"). Instead of assuming that obesity is a pure physiological problem as in previous studies, we allow an individual's cost …

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our … nutritional guidelines as well as the design and implementation of targeted obesity-reduction policies that recognize that being … influence action in all countries in the Caribbean that lack policies to address obesity. …