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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 as...
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in …
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associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …
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obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive … causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal role in increasing the prevalence of obesity, then policy … from major depression to higher BMI and obesity. While contemporaneous effects are considered, the study primarily focuses …
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....
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A growing literature examines the effects of economic variables on obesity, typically focusing on only one or a few … obesity, and 59% of the rise in class II/III obesity. Quantile regressions also point to large effects among the heaviest …
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due to differences in underlying preferences for health or risks for obesity. We evaluate heterogeneity in the long …
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, suggesting obesity is partly attributable to rational intertemporal tradeoffs but also partly to time inconsistency …
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intake and obesity. The cross-national trends, across countries spanning the spectrum of economic development and geographic …
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We provide estimates of the impact and long-run elasticities of tax base with respect to tax rates for four large U.S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income taxation), and Philadelphia (property, gross receipts,...
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