IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2019, 13 (4), 553 - 584

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10650

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin Lee, Wilfredo Lim

published in:: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, 1 - 14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10649

Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 660 - 691

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620

Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship

Olaf Hübler

revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10491

Determinants of Obesity in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country

Deniz Karaoğlan, Aysit Tansel

published in: Bogazici University Journal, 2019, 32 (2), 174-184.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9907

The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables

Petri Böckerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen, Olli Raitakari

published in: Health Economics, 2019, 28 (1), 65-77

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9773

If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna

published in: Journal of Health Economics,2019, 65: 210-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9682

Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico

Jeffrey Grogger

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99 (2), 481-498

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9608

The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9608

The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9335

Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes

Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão, Kerstin Roeder

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 258-267.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9172

Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 27 - 45

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. 9052

Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes

Susan L. Averett, Erin K. Fletcher

published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9051

Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Karin Bammann, Gabriele Eiben, Yiannis Kourides, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Kenn Konstabel, Alba M. Santaliestra-Pasias, Krishna Vyncke, Iris Pigeot

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152

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. 8967

Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8529

Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Tzahi Neuman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8030

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Peng Nie, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(20), 2418–2428

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8009

Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7947

Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty

Marco Caliendo, Markus Gehrsitz

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7893

Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard

Donal O'Neill

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7657

The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7512

The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index

Susan L. Averett, Sabrina Terrizzi, Yang Wang

published in: Health economics, 2017, 26(7), 875-891.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7465

Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin, Roy Wada

revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 12, 4-19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7453

Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis

published as 'Persistence in Body Mass Index in a Recent Cohort of US Children' in: Economics an Human Biology, 2015, 17, 157-176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7428

A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages

José R. Guardado, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

revised version published as 'Worker Investment in Safety, Workplace Accidents, and Compensating Wage Differentials' in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (1), 133-155

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7371

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective

Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lucia A. Reisch, Wolfgang Ahrens, Stefaan De Henauw, Gabriele Eiben, Juan M. Fernández-Alvira, Charalampos Hadjigeorgiou, Eva Kovács, Fabio Lauria, Toomas Veidebaum, Garrath Williams, Karin Bammann

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 728-742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7359

Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development

Daniel L. Millimet, Ian K. McDonough

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7288

Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error

Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7247

The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

John Cawley, Rosemary Avery, Matthew Eisenberg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7213

The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control

John Cawley, Stephanie von Hinke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7099

Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin, Roy Wada

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7008

The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6898

Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt

Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith

published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6888

Does Money Burn Fat? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Boris Augurzky, Thomas K. Bauer, Arndt R. Reichert, Christoph M. Schmidt, Harald Tauchmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6807

The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

John Cawley, David E. Frisvold, Chad D. Meyerhoefer

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6750

Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic and Health Behavior

Aldo Rustichini, Colin G. DeYoung, Jon E. Anderson, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Toward the Integration of Personality Theory and Decision Theory in the Explanation of Economic Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 64, 122-137

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6691

What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process

Stefan Eriksson, Per Johansson, Sophie Langenskiöld

published in: Emperical Economics, 2017, 53, 803 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6454

Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, Jennifer L. Kohn

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6408

Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers

Jon E. Anderson, Manjari Govada, Tricia K. Steffen, Chris P. Thorne, Vasileia Varvarigou, Stefanos N. Kales, Stephen V. Burks

revised version published as 'Obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers,' in: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2012, 49, 378-384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6110

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger, Johannes Schoch

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6071

The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Oscar A. Mitnik, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Maximilian D. Schmeiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6025

The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5841

Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes

David W. Johnston, Wang-Sheng Lee

published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1429-1450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5822

Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

John Cawley, J. Catherine Maclean

published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (11), 1348-1366

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5795

Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment

Marco Caliendo, Wang-Sheng Lee

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (2), 121-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5728

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley, Christopher J. Ruhm

published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199

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. 5135

Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity

Randall K. Q. Akee, Emilia Simeonova, William Copeland, Adrian Angold, Jane E. Costello

published as 'Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 1-28

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. 4667

Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females

Giorgio Brunello, Daniele Fabbri, Margherita Fort

published as 'The Causal effect of education on body mass: evidence from Europe' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31(1), 195-223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4330

Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany

Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold, Martin Salm

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 862-872

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4255

Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Chris M. Herbst, Erdal Tekin

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4229

Fat and Out in Salerno and Province: Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy

Adriana Barone, Niall O'Higgins

revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 44-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4149

Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?

Paul Frijters, Juan D. Barón

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4099

Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS

Maarten Lindeboom, Petter Lundborg, Bas van der Klaauw

published as 'Assessing the Impact of Obesity on Labor Market Outcome' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 309-319

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4010

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Bert van Landeghem

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3664

School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, Muna Husain

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (3), 640-654

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3610

Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers

Timothy J. Halliday, Sally Kwak

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 7 (2), 246-262

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3529

The Rise in Obesity across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective

Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

published in: Economic Policy, 2009, 24 (59), 551-596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2925

Limited Self-Control, Obesity and the Loss of Happiness

Alois Stutzer

published in: Health Economics, 2015, 25, 1409–1424

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2775

Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment

Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published as "Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 710-735

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2717

Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence

Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee

published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F441-F459

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