Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2019
We examine the relationship between BMI and mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the … significantly associated with worse mental health in both young adulthood and old age, they are likely to be confounded by (i …) unobserved factors that affect both BMI and mental health and (ii) reverse causality. To tackle confounding, we take two …