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The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
Cawley, John - 2010
This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a … National Health Interview Surveys. The model estimates rule out even moderate effects of income on weight and on the …
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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes : An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …
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Sibling Correlation in Educational Attainment : A Test of Genetic Nurture
Cawley, John; Han, Euna; Kim, Jiyoon; Norton, Edward C. - 2022
The educational attainment of siblings is highly correlated. We test for a specific type of peer effect between siblings in educational attainment: genetic nurture. Specifically, we test whether a person’s educational attainment is correlated with their sibling’s polygenic score (PGS) for...
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