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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
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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Estimating obesity rates in the presence of measurement error
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries. For men it is possible to …
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …
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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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Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range...
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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, Jay - 2014
obesity rates. …
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Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard
O'Neill, Donal - 2014
obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate … alternative measures of obesity in the absence of a gold standard. Using data from a representative sample of US adults we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333304
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014
not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333350