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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Chou, Shin-Yi - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially …

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The Super Size of America : An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Rashad, Inas - 2005

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid … Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various state-level variables have on body mass index and obesity. These …, display many of the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for …

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Youth Body Composition

Grossman, Michael - 2012

obesity based on body-mass index (BMI). We merge measures of body composition from bioelectrical-impedance analysis (BIA) and … in PBF in adolescents. These results are consistent with those obtained by using BMI-based measures of obesity. The … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …

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Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths

Grossman, Michael - 2013

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

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The Effects of Taxation on the Merger Decision

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1987

This paper presents estimates of the tax benefits generated by a sample of U.S. mergers and acquisitions involving two public corporations over the period 1968-83 and estimates a "marriage model" based on differences between these mergers and another sample of "pseudomergers" that did not occur...

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Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined?

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1987

This paper examines the source of changes in corporate tax revenues during the last twenty-five years. It finds that legislative changes explain less than half of the revenue decline during this period. Falling corporate profits have had a larger influence on revenue collections than a11...

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Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined? Another Look

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2006

As a share of GDP, U.S. federal tax revenues from nonfinancial corporations have held relatively constant since the early 1980s, after falling precipitously during the late 1960s and the 1970s. But this relative constancy masks offsetting trends in the ratio of nonfinancial C corporation profits...

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How Much Equity Does the Government Hold?

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2004

A central point in the recent debate about Social Security in the United States has been the extent to which the federal government should take significant positions in the equity market. But, as this paper shows, the government already has a much more significant, if implicit position in the...

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