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Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

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AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985-2000. Results differ depending on the variation used and the estimation method. Between estimates that exploit cross-sectional variation suggest a positive significant effect of HIV/AIDS...

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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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HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, 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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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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Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We examine the role of changing mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their lifetimes subject to uncertainty about their date of death. In an environment in which mortality is...

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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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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Redding, Stephen James; Itskhoki, Oleg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

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