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13 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16119
Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain
Catarina Goulão, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Miguel Lagos, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 218, 132-145
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15490
The Effect of Health Insurance on Child Nutritional Outcomes. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Peru
Noelia Bernal, Joan Costa-Font, Patricia Ritter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13903
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
published as 'Income Windfalls and Overweight Evidence from Lottery Wins' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2005–2026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13685
Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Alexandrina P. Stoyanova
published as 'The relationship between overweight and education revisited: a test of the selection hypothesis based on adolescents' educational aspirations' in: Public Health, 2023, 224, 237 - 243
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12617
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers
Ethan Grumstrup, Md. Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Olga Shapoval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11795
The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective
Mathias Huebener
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11702
Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?
Joan Costa-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9087
Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Bernard Fortin, Myra Yazbeck
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050
Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5366
Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Dean Jolliffe
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4098
Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jane Greve
published as 'Overweight and obesity and the utilization of primary care physicians' in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (S1), 53 - 67
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