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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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Explaining stunting in nineteenth century France
Postel-Vinay, Gilles (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003402946
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Socioeconomic factors associated with being overweight or obese in Suriname
Khadan, Jeetendra; Spencer, Nekeisha; Strobl, Eric; … - 2021
This paper applies probit regression models to a nationally representative household survey dataset collected in 2016-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our results indicate that women, the elderly, and...
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Parents' education and child body weight in France : the trajectory of the gradient in the early years
Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves - 2015
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Time preference and health : the problem of obesity
Cavaliere, Alessia; De Marchi, Elisa; Banterle, Alessandro - 2013
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The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation : exploring the driving factors
Carrasco, Raquel; González-González, Diego - 2024
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020
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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021
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Flat-of-the-curve medicine : a new perspective on the production of health
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …
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