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Does more money make you fat? : the effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity
Akee, Randall; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010
) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810552
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715818
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health : The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity
Datar, Ashlesha; Nicosia, Nancy; Samek, Anya Savikhin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and consequently their children, to different...
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Children's health capital investment : effects of U.S. infant breastfeeding on teenage obesity
Okunade, Albert A.; Osmani, Ahmad Reshad; Ayangbayi, … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-15
Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing scholarly and public policy attention. While many studies have suggested that infant breastfeeding protects against childhood obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship...
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The medical care costs of youth obesity : an instrumental variables approach
Biener, Adam I.; Cawley, John H.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2017
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Teen overweight, weight stigma, and intimate relationship development from adolescence to young adulthood
Cheng, Yen-hsin Alice; Landale, Nancy S. - 2010
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Essays on health and nutrition in China
Nie, Peng - 2015
den USA. In Kapitel 5 bieten wir ein umfassendes Bild über den Zusammenhang zwischen langen Arbeitszeiten und subjektiven …
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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
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Born to be wide? : exploring correlations in mother and adolescent body mass index using data from the British household panel survey
Brown, Heather; Roberts, Jennifer - 2012
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