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The effect of health insurance on child nutritional outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Costa-Font, Joan; Ritter, Patricia - 2022
children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342877
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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake
Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014
This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412876
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Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2019
This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103592
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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2017
When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well-accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development. To date, there is no study that compares 19th century BMIs of immigrants and US natives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761584
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Paternalistic taxation of unhealthy food and the intensive versus extensive margin of obesity
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2018
This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800144
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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 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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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment
Carson, Scott A. - 2013
Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223384
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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective
Carson, Scott Alan - 2013
This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786082
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Partially adaptive econometric methods and the modern obesity epidemic
Carson, Scott Alan; McDonald, James B. - 2018
modern obesity epidemic is a well-known health dilemma where the BMI distribution was initially positively skewed but has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853276
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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