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Research brief: Obesity leads to skinny wallets

09-Feb-07

Overweight people earn less then their slimmer counterparts, say Italian researchers. This was investigated in nine European countries. Every 10 per cent increase in average BMI reduced the earnings of men by 3.27 per cent and women by 1.86 per cent. (Economics and Human Biology Online 2007).

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