An economy of scales: A selective review of obesity's economic causes, consequences, and solutions

J Cawley - Journal of health economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …

Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature.

X Liu, E Sierminska - … Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
Examining the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes has become a growing field of
labor economics. In fact, the way the labor market rewards physical attractiveness has …

Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set

S Oreffice, C Quintana-Domeque - Economics & Human Biology, 2016 - Elsevier
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview in the German General
Social Survey is related to weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), separately by gender …

Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature

E Sierminska - 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage
gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article …