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Is there a link between BMI and adolescents' educational choices and expectations?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Stoyanova, Alexandrina P. - 2020

overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of overweight and obesity. However, recent literature started questioning the … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …

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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2015

considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

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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...

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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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The effects of education on health : an intergenerational perspective

Huebener, Mathias - 2018

overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

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Working times and overweight : tight schedules, weaker fitness?

Costa-Font, Joan; Sáenz de Miera Juárez, Belén - 2018

Although the rise in obesity and overweight is related to time constraints influencing health investments (e … the causal effect of a change in working times on overweight and obesity drawing from evidence from the Aubrey reform … times on body weight. Our results show evidence of 0.7% increase in average BMI an 8pp increase in the probability of …

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The effects of the Affordable Care Act on workplace absenteeism of overweight and obese workers

Grumstrup, Ethan; Hossain, Md. Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2019

Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the … National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare absenteeism among overweight and obese workers to absenteeism among normal … about 1.3 (1.5) percentage points among obese (overweight) individuals. Disaggregated regressions suggest that the effect is …

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Weight, attractiveness, and gender when hiring : a field experiment in Spain

Goulão, Catarina; Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; … - 2023

Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer … the hiring process. However, whether overweight job applicants also face employer discrimination is still an open question … overweight. Applications with a photo of the weight-manipulated male receive significantly fewer callbacks for a job interview …

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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

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically...

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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes

Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...

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