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Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 234-238

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The implications of self-reported body weight and height for measurement error in BMI

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in the reporting error in BMI, while there is limited evidence of systematic associations with...

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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS

Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021

self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …

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