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This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day - rather than average daily time use over an extended period - is used...
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills. …
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negative effect. Our results suggest that the commonly found positive effects of exercising or participating in sports on … increase physical activity in everyday life need to weigh the health and well-being benefits against the probability of …
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investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …
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While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
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Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …
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This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women … in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … health behaviors. The results indicate that smoking is positively associated with education at all levels with a decreasing …
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This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors … considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercising and one health outcome namely, the body …
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We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...
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In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...
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