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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 …
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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare) …
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Do they know what's at risk? Health risk perception among the Obese
Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - 2012
The perception of disease risks and risky health behaviors are closely associated. In this paper, we investigate the accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases elicited in the American Life Panel (ALP) to individual's...
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Body Weight and United States Economic Development, 1840-1940
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
When traditional measures for material and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI does not fully...
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Female and Male Body Mass, Height, and Weight During US Economics Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development....
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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 related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
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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...
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Nineteenth century US black and white physical activity and nutritional trends among the working class
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Much has been written about 19th century African American and white statures and body mass index values. However, little is known about their physical activity and calories required to sustain height and weight. This paper considers two alternative measures for biological conditions that address...
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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...
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Status Seeking Behavior of the Poor : A Study on India
Marjit, Sugata - 2018
This paper is the first attempt towards directly testing the existence of status seeking behavior of the poor for a developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across...
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