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Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood
Cawley, John - 2008
This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464637
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Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity : Is Nurture Trumping Nature?
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2007
Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465167
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Beyond BMI : The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research
Cawley, John - 2006
As an example of the value of fatness in predicting social science outcomes, we show that while BMI is positively correlated with the probability of employment disability in the PSID, when body mass is divided into its components, fatness is positively correlated with disability while fat-free...
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The Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during early childhood on later-life health. This paper … contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a … impact on health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455347
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The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries
Kopinska, Joanna; Atella, Vincenzo; Bhattacharya, Jay; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
populations above mortality-minimizing bodyweight is not clearly greater in countries with higher overweight and obesity rates (as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533362
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Birth Weight in the Long Run
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457314
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Misinformation During a Pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020
pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481612
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Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
Cutler, David M. - 2007
the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478031
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Understanding Overeating and Obesity
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2010
waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys are used to investigate predictions of the dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462508