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Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Externalities in the Parental Choice of Children's Diet
Kalamov, Zarko - 2019
externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861438
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Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight : Inequality Across Quantiles
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224101
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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866408
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Milewski, Nadja - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314838
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822692
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Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Mancy, … - 2021
The main waves of a pandemic and subsequent disease outbreaks in the following years influence the evolution of the distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption smoothing and precautionary behaviour associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310772
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Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Children's Dynamic Skill Accumulation : Evidence from a UK Longitudinal Study
Anderberg, Dan - 2020
Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830106
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826046
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Right and Yet Wrong : A Spatio-Temporal Evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 Containment Policy
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020
In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827114