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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763252
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681274
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Youth depression and future criminal behavior
Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545437
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301665
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"Might not be a tomorrow" : a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor);  … - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777931
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Catholic schools and bad behavior
Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413864
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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Child access prevention laws and juvenile firearm-related homicides
Anderson, D. Mark; Sabia, Joseph J.; Tekin, Erdal - 2018
-profile shootings committed by minors. Whether these laws actually decrease youth gun violence, however, is an unanswered question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934047