We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare … prepregnancy obesity with the exception of LGA, SGA, low birth weight and preterm birth. We find that prepregnancy obesity is …

We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight … the correlation between satisfaction and own BMI is initially positive, but turns negative after some threshold …

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 …

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 …

Wide cross-country variation in obesity rates have been reported within European Union member states. However, health … propose a methodology for conducting standardized cross-country comparisons in BMI. The method we adopt is based on the … estimation of the marginal density function of BMI in a given country implied by different counterfactual distributions of all …

when the Food Stamp Act began guaranteeing food for those in poverty. Since the Act’s passage, the prevalence of obesity … Program on the prevalence of obesity using 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. Results indicate food stamps have … significant positive effects on obesity and the obesity gap for females, but these effects are relatively small and such benefits …

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … responsiveness to fast-food advertising is greater for PBF than for BMI. Males are more responsive to advertising than females …

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race …