change in employment status), perceived stress, and subjective health. Results: Cohabitation led to significant weight gain … in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight …-related behaviors, age, children, employment, stress, and health). BMI after separation was largely comparable to BMI before starting …

Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions … related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, and height reflects the cumulative price of net nutrition during childhood and resources devoted to an off-spring's health …

data from Indonesia covering a period of 22 years, we analyze how ethnic-based kinship systems and marriage customs …