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Health burden and costs of obesity and overweight in Germany : an update
Lehnert, Thomas; Streltchenia, Pawel; Konnopka, Alexander; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 9, pp. 957-967
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Spousal dependence and intergenerational transmission of body mass index
Chen, Sihong; Zhang, Yu Yvette; Jin, Shaosheng - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 43, pp. 5081-5096
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Consequences of the obesity epidemic for immigrants : when migrants move to countries with high obesity rates, does assimilation lead to labor market penalties and higher health ca...
Argys, Laura M. - 2015
Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass … index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences of …
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How a race to the bottom can make you fat
Galinato, Gregmar I.; Zhou, You - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 52, pp. 5620-5640
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Effects of U.S. public agricultural R&D on U.S. obesity and its social costs
Alston, Julian Mark; MacEwan, Joanna P.; Okrent, Abigail M. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 38 (2016) 3, pp. 492-520
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The costs and consequences of obesity in Germany : a new approach from a prevalence and life-cycle perspective
Effertz, Tobias; Engel, Susanne; Verheyen, Frank; … - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 17 (2016) 9, pp. 1141-1158
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Obesity and metabolic state are associated with increased healthcare resource and medication use and costs : a Finnish population-based study
Vesikansa, Aino; Mehtälä, Juha; Mutanen, Katja; … - In: The European journal of health economics 24 (2023) 5, pp. 769-781
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Social costs of obesity in the Czech Republic
Landovská, Petra; Karbanová, Martina - In: The European journal of health economics 24 (2023) 8, pp. 1321-1341
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The dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India : obesity transition and the looming health care crisis
Siddiqui, Zakaria; Donato, Ronald - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 134 (2020), pp. 1-15
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Does diabetes prevention pay for itself? : evaluation of the M.O.B.I.L.I.S. program for obese persons
Häußler, Jan; Breyer, Friedrich - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 17 (2016) 4, pp. 379-389
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