Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - In: Demography 51 (2014) 5, pp. 1573-1596
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large...