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The Sweet Life : The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood
Gertler, Paul J.; Gračner, Tadeja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...
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Swallow This : Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
Abrahamsson, Sara Sofie; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or … the youth skin-fold equations, the larger calorie coefficients in the skin-fold equation for 10-16 year old youths with …
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Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments
Sandy, Robert - 2009
We utilize clinical records of successive visits by children to pediatric clinics in Indianapolis to estimate the effects on their body mass of environmental changes near their homes. We compare results for fixed-residence children with those for cross-sectional data. Our environmental factors...
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Overweight in Adolescents : Implications for Health Expenditures
Monheit, Alan C. - 2007
We consider two compelling research questions raised by the increased prevalence of overweight among adolescents. First, what factors explain variation in adolescent bodyweight and the likelihood of being overweight? Next, do overweight adolescents incur greater health care expenditures compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465158
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Comprehensive E-cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use among Youth and Adults
Saffer, Henry; Ozdogan, Selen; Grossman, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The vast majority of youth e-cigarette users consume flavored e-cigarettes, raising concerns from public health … advocates that flavors may drive youth initiation into and continued use of e-cigarettes. Flavors drew further notice from the … and potential spillovers into other tobacco use by youth, young adults, and adults. We utilize both standard difference …
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The Effect of a Peer's Teen Pregnancy on Sexual Behavior
Anand, Priyanka; Kahn, Lisa B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
birth. Our work suggests that connecting youth personally with the experiences of teen parents is a promising avenue for …
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Understanding Overeating and Obesity
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2010
The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating, in the current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a "dual-decision" approach where choices reflect the interaction between two parts of the brain: a "deliberative"...
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Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight
Ng, Shu Wen - 2010
The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as instruments to obtain statistically correct...
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Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants
Bollinger, Bryan - 2010
We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions, using detailed data from Starbucks. We find that average calories per transaction falls by 6%. The effect is almost entirely related to changes in consumers' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of...
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