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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David E.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This...
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
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Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?
Frijters, Paul; Barón, Juan D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … obesity, using the US Health and Retirement Study. Whilst we find that obesity leads to chronic diseases that reduce length of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. …
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Don’t Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health … repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners’ behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of … simple bivariate probit reveals a positive correlation between own current smoking and partner’s past smoking, which is …
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Teacher Pay, Class Size and Local Governments: Evidence from the Latvian Reform
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...
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Getting Stuck in the Blues: Persistence of Mental Health Problems in Australia
Roy, John; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Do episodes of mental health problems cause future mental health problems, and if yes, how strong are these dynamics …? We quantify the degree of persistence in mental health problems using nationally-representative, longitudinal data from …. Our results suggest only a moderate degree of persistence in mental health problems when assuming that persistence is …
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents' health status, their …
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Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks
Chen, Xi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The fetal origins hypothesis (hereafter FOH), put forward in the epidemiological literature and later flourished in the economics literature, suggests that the time in utero is a critical period for human development. However, much attention has been paid to the consequences of fetal exposures...
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …. Donating plasma is associated with a .83 standard deviation (SD) decline in self-rated health, a .54 SD lower self-rated health …
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Mental Illness and Unhappiness
Layard, Richard; Chisholm, Dan; Patel, Vikram; Saxena, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …
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