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McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014

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Changes in BMI in a cohort of Irish children : some decompositions and counterfactuals

Madden, David - 2018

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and decomposes the change into parts attributable to changes in observable characteristics and changes in returns to observable characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the...

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Mind the gap : revisiting the concentration index for overweight

Madden, David - 2017

Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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Only the fit survive recessions : estimating labor market penalties for the obese over the business cycle

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Two-stage instrumental variable estimation of linear panel data models with interactive effects

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Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data : a machine learning approach

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Body Mass Index and the measurement of obesity

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Health and health inequality during the Great Recession : evidence from the PSID

Wang, Huixia; Wang, Chenggang; Halliday, Timothy - 2016 - Last update: September 8, 2016

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Child and adolescent obesity in Ireland : a longitudinal perspective

Madden, David - 2016

reveals a greater role for income related obesity mobility rather than obesity related income mobility. …This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in … Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic …

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