Bozoyan, Christiane; Wolbring, Tobias - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 356-363
Recent studies in health economics have generated two important findings: that as a measure of fatness the body mass index (BMI) is biased; and that, when it comes to analyzing wage correlates, both fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat (BF) are better suited to the task. We validate these findings for...