Gaining weight through retirement? Results from the SHARE survey

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-46

  Godard, Mathilde ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Instrumental variables; Obesity; Retirement

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; HEALTH SURVEY; INDEX METHOD; OBESITY; PROBABILITY; RETIREMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DENMARK; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; ITALY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RETIREMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; WEIGHT GAIN; AGING; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EUROPE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETIREMENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84949870419     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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