predisposition to high BMI – measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores – on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We … probability of obesity for females by 2.8 percentage points, about half the size of the effect induced by a one standard deviation …

conditions, including smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. We find that better educated … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

tertiary education -measured by college selectivity- causally affects obesity prevalence in the medium run (by age 24-34) and … average treatment effect of college selectivity on obesity. We find that attending a more selective college causally reduces … obesity, both in the medium and in the longer run. We provide evidence that the mechanisms through which the impact of college …

Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries. For men it is possible to …

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …