Brunello, Giorgio; d'Hombres, Beatrice - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of body weight on wages in 9 European countries. When we pool the available data across countries and years, we find that a 10% increase in the average body mass index reduces the real earnings of males and females...