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effect of an SSB tax on the consumption and BMI of youth in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, which we compare …
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heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and … validated survey scale. Using the obesity rate in the assigned installation county as a summary measure of its obesity …-related environments, we show that exposure to counties with higher obesity rates increases the likelihood of obesity among less patient …
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Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject … to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent … smoking substantially reduces BMI. However, we find the results are sensitive to specification, functional form, and the …
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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 …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …
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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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We use comprehensive administrative data from Rhode Island to measure the impact of early-life interventions for low birth weight newborns on later-life outcomes. We use a regression discontinuity design based on the 1,500-gram threshold for Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) status. We show that...
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Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or … constrained by resource deprivation, overweight status is predominantly found in poor, less-educated populations. This paper seeks … to identify the causal role of schooling in affecting obesity among children and adolescents, using new estimation …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican … imports from the U.S. explains about ten percent of the rise in obesity prevalence among Mexican women between 1988 and 2012 …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price …
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in … find that calorie mandates lead to a small but statistically significant reduction in average BMI of 0.2 kg/m<sup>2</sup … reductions in BMI and life satisfaction are concentrated among those with healthy weight. Viewed in its totality, the pattern of …
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year of school exposure results in a greater BMI and a higher probability of being overweight or obese. When actual …In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age … is a significant negative effect on the probability of being overweight …
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