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The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
Cawley, John - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464541
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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes : an Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
Böckerman, Petri - 2016
earnings and employment and increases social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456475
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Sibling Correlation in Educational Attainment : A Test of Genetic Nurture
Cawley, John - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481530
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460323