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Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

To American and European economists in 1945, the countries of Asia were unpromising candidates for high economic growth. In 1950 even the most prosperous of these countries had a per capita income less than 25 percent of that of the United States. Between the mid-1960s and the end of the...

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Structural Estimation of Caloric Intake, Exercise, Smoking, and Obesity

Kelly, Inas Rashad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The escalating rate of obesity in the US highlights the importance of understanding the causes for this rise. In this paper I employ the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to estimate a structural model of the determinants of adult obesity. To control for...

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Cycling: An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health

Kelly, Inas Rashad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Cost savings associated with increased gasoline prices and lower levels of urban sprawl have been cited in terms of personal savings, environmental awareness, reduced costs through lower travel times and congestion, and reduced income inequality. Cost savings in terms of improved health,...

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Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care

Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Over the past three centuries there has been a rapid accumulation of physiological capital in OECD countries. Enhanced physiological capital is tied to long-term reduction in environmental hazards and to the conquest of chronic malnutrition. Data on heights and birth weights suggests that...

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The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid rise has occurred. This paper employs micro-level data from the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various...

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Changes in the Physiology of Aging during the Twentieth Century

Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

One way to demonstrate how remarkable changes in the process of aging have been is to compare health over the life cycles of 3 cohorts. For the first cohort, born between 1835 and 1845 (the Civil War cohort), life was short and disabilities were common even at young ages. Other factors...

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Findings and Procedures of the Early Indicators Project

Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

The program project Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease and Death investigates how socioeconomic and environmental factors in early life can shape health and work levels in later life. Project researchers have approached this problem by creating a life-cycle sample that permits a...

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How Does the Business Cycle Affect Eating Habits?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kelly, Inas Rashad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

(1990-2007) to explore the relationship between the risk of unemployment and the consumption of various healthy and … unhealthy foods. Estimates, based on fixed effects methodologies, indicate that a higher risk of unemployment is associated with … stratifications and by isolating the effect for those predicted to be at highest risk of unemployment based on their socio …

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