Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 11,314
Cover Image
Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291410
Cover Image
Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814471
Cover Image
Time spent exercising and obesity : an application of Lewbel's instrumental variables method
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2020
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day - rather than average daily time use over an extended period - is used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158874
Cover Image
Changes in Compulsory Schooling and the Causal Effect of Education on Health
Kemptner, Daniel; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2010
In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using changes in compulsory schooling laws which took place from 1949 to 1969 as natural experiments. These law changed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270200
Cover Image
Family Size Effects on Child Health: Evidence on the Quantity-Quality Trade-off using the NLSY
Dasgupta, Kabir; T.-Solomon, Keisha - 2017
a significant drop in the likelihood of obesity (but may also lead to an increase in the child's probability of being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624273
Cover Image
The impact of BMI on mental health : further evidence from genetic markers
Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2020
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we exploit variation in a polygenic score (PGS) for BMI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193640
Cover Image
Obesity and the Availability of Fast-Food : An Instrumental Variables Approach
Dunn, Richard A. - 2008
This paper addresses the simultaneous determination of fast-food availability on obesity rates through the use of … instrumental variables, specifically the number of interstate exits in the county of residence. Using the 2005 Behavioral Risk … counties and the method yields results comparable to previous work looking at rural counties, though the sample employed here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050254
Cover Image
Gaining weight through retirement? Results from the SHARE survey
Godard, Mathilde - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
In this paper, we use IV-techniques to identify the causal e ect of retirement among the 50-69 year-old on Body Mass Index (BMI) and related weight measures. Based on the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the identi cation strategy exploits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708845
Cover Image
Gaining weight through retirement ? Results from the SHARE survey
Godard, Mathilde - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960527
Cover Image
Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link
Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper …. Conditional on having already lost some weight, a further reduction in obesity also increases the frequency of sexual intercourse. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282771