Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65941 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2010-41
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in UK by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that quantile regression estimates are quite different from OLS ones. Among obese people, our results reveal that they are less so as male that do not spend extra-time at work or female increasing physical activity. Furthermore, smoking cessation may lead to moderate effects on weight increases only for underweight or normal-weight subjects but are not significant for obese ones.
Subjects: 
Body Mass Index
Overweight and Obesity
Quantile regression
Elasticity
JEL: 
I10
I12
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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