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Do they Know what's at Risk? Health Risk Perception among the Obese

Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - CESifo - 2012

overestimate their 5-year risks of a heart attack and a stroke. Obese individuals are thus aware of some but not all obesity …

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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Legislation on Marriage, Fertility, Domestic Division of Labour, and the Education of Children

Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …

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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - CESifo - 2010

increasingly larger. The rate of change of BMI centile curves varied considerably over time. The BMI of white men and women … around the 1970s. In sum, the creeping nature of the obesity epidemic is evident, as the technological and lifestyle changes …

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The Welfare Effects of Health-based Food Tax Policy

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Härkänen, Tommi; Pietinen, Pirjo; … - CESifo - 2011

This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and health estimates and report the confidence intervals for...

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'Globesity'? The Effects of Globalization on Obesity and Caloric Intake

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - CESifo - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 …

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Health Club Attendance, Expectations and Self-control

Garin, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - CESifo - 2014

Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to a reported measure of self-control problems at the time of contract signing. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear...

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The Trend of BMI Values among US Adults

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - CESifo - 2010

change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986.Methods: We use loess additive …

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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size: Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force?

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2010

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2008

Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...

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