...Ummad Mazhar Purpose The health costs associated with obesity are increasing in developed and emerging economies. Particularly important, though remaining underexplored, is the overall impact of health risks associated with being obese and overweight on the productivity of firms in a cross-country...

...Mary J. Becker; Lindsay N. Calkins; Walter Simmons; Andrew M. Welki; Thomas J. Zlatoper Purpose This paper analyzes the impact of obesity on the probability of a motor vehicle fatality (highway death rate) and on its component probabilities: the probability of a fatality, given a crash...

...Ferda Halicioglu Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study empirically the dynamics of obesity in Finland and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between obesity, health expenditure, unemployment, urbanization, alcohol consumption and calorie intake. Design/methodology...

...Walter O. Simmons; Thomas J. Zlatoper Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the linkage between obesity and motor vehicle deaths. Design/methodology/approach The paper specifies a model that explains highway fatalities, which accounts for obesity in its set...