Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes

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The Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity (2011, methodology): “Cawley (2000) uses this data to determine the extent of measurement error in weight (and height) and finds that those overweight underestimate their weight and those underweight overestimate their weight.”
Unhealthy assimilation: Why do immigrants converge to American health status levels? (2005, unknown): “A related literature has also found that a wage penalty is associated with obesity (Averett and Korenman 1996; Cawley 2000; Hamermesh and Biddle 1994; Pagan and Davila 1997; Register and Williams 1990).”
Beyond BMI: the value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research. (2008, unknown): “This difference was obscured in previous research that studied the correlation between employment and BMI (e.g. Garcia and Quintana-Domeque, 2007; Lundborg et al., 2007; Cawley and Danziger, 2005; Cawley, 2000; Averett and Korenman, 1999).”
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market (2012, unknown): “Finally, Cawley (2000, 2004) used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES III) to estimate the relationship between measured height and weight and their self-reported counterparts.”