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Böckerman, Petri; Cawley, John H.; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2016

The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper contributes to the literature by using a novel instrument:...

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The effect of prenatal stress on birth weight : evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011

of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine the …

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The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: first wave results

Jaeger, David A.; Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Karbownik, … - 2021

expectations regarding three fundamental aspects of students' lives in the pandemic: the labor market, education, and health. We …

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Unfit for service : the implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment

Cawley, John H.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by … series of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We calculate that the percentage of …

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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control

Cawley, John H.; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2013

for cigarettes is a derived demand. Public health efforts to reduce smoking initiation and encourage cessation may wish to …

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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products

Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013

sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. -- advertising ; weight loss ; obesity … ; deception ; information ; drugs ; health …

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Prenatal stress and low birth weight : evidence from the Super Bowl

Duncan, Brian; Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I. - 2015

and terrorist attacks, both of which could affect fetal health through other channels. Using data from the National Vital …

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Effect of stress on later-life health : evidence from the Vietnam War draft

Grossman, Daniel; Cawley, John H.; De Walque, Damien - In: Southern economic journal 85 (2018) 1, pp. 142-165

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