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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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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528667
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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015
different fatness measures. Peer effects are larger in Spain, Italy, and Cyprus - the more collectivist regions in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528670
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for its...
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The relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and preschool obesity
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal origins hypothesis posits that the intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's...
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The effect of higher education on women's obesity and smoking : evidence from college openings in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2022
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of universities throughout Turkey. Based on the spatial and temporal variability of university...
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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010
Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … followed by increases in the number of disconnected youth. -- Disconnected youth ; unemployment ; school failure ; life …
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Improvements in schooling opportunities and teen births
Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024
We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...
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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK
Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...
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