García Villar Jaume, Quintana-Domeque Climent
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
Econ Hum Biol. 2009 Mar;7(1):73-83. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2009.01.006. Epub 2009 Jan 31.
The problem of obesity is alarming public health authorities around the world. Therefore, it is important to study its determinants. In this paper, we explore the empirical relationship between household income and body mass index (BMI) in nine European Union countries. Our findings suggest that, in general, the association is negative for women and nonexistent for men. Moreover, once we decompose household income into "own labor earnings" and "other household income", we find that the different relationship for men and women appears to be driven by the negative relationship between BMI and "own labor earnings" for women.
肥胖问题正引起全球公共卫生当局的警觉。因此，研究其决定因素很重要。在本文中，我们探讨了欧盟九个国家家庭收入与体重指数（BMI）之间的实证关系。我们的研究结果表明，总体而言，这种关联对女性为负，对男性则不存在。此外，一旦我们将家庭收入分解为“自身劳动收入”和“其他家庭收入”，我们发现男性和女性的不同关系似乎是由BMI与女性“自身劳动收入”之间的负相关关系驱动的。
