The inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and unhealthy behaviors
such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition have been well demonstrated …

This paper presents a dynamic theory of body weight and develops its implications. We
argue that technological change has induced weight growth by making home-and market …

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on
long-term labour market variables, health and subjective well-being indicators for West …

We review the recent but growing economic literature on the worldwide growth of obesity,
relating the review to a recent anthology of articles—Obesity, Business and Public Policy …

We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine how
body weight changes with age for a cohort moving through early adulthood, to investigate …

Background Little is known about the role of low physical activity at work (sedentary work or
low physical job demand) in the increasing prevalence of obesity of US workers. Methods …

We adopt a multi-country setup to show that years of schooling have a causal protective
effect on the body mass index of females living in nine European countries. No such effect is …

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender (REG) differentials in physical activity (PA), a
significant input into human capital investments. We construct detailed and all-inclusive PA …

We examine whether the job characteristics of physical demands and environmental
conditions affect individual's health. Five‐year cumulative measures of these job …

Past empirical work has shown a negative relationship between the body mass index (BMI)
and wages in most cases. We improve on this work by allowing the marginal effect of non …