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Obesity and Food away from Home : What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight?
Strupat, Christoph - 2019
Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … restaurants located in the food environment of the households is significantly associated with higher rates of obesity and … overweight. Up to 15 percent of the socioeconomic gradient in obesity is attributable to restaurant food quality, with sodium …
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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during the early stages of life 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 novel proxy for stress: risk of military...
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The Use of Financial Incentives to Prevent Undesirable Behaviors
de Walque, Damien - 2018
behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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Diet Quality, Child Health, and Food Policies in Developing Countries
Bhargava, Alok - 2017
Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes...
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Shorter, Cheaper, Quicker, Better : Linking Measures of Household Food Security to Nutritional Outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
Using nationally representative household survey data from five countries -- three from South Asia (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of the correlation between various measures of household food...
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Can We Rely on Cash Transfers to Protect Dietary Diversity During Food Crises? Estimates from Indonesia
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
The 2008 "food price crisis" and more recent spikes in food prices have led to a greater focus on policies and programs to cushion their impact on poverty and malnutrition. Estimating the income elasticity of micro-nutrients and assessing how they change during such crises is an important part...
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Agricultural Production, Dietary Diversity, and Climate Variability
Dillon, Andrew - 2020
Nonseparable household models outline the links between agricultural production and household consumption, yet empirical extensions to investigate the effect of production on dietary diversity and diet composition are limited. Although a significant literature has investigated the calorie-income...
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Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change : Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh
Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2020
Millions of villagers in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic by drinking contaminated water from private wells. Testing for arsenic can encourage switching from unsafe wells to safer sources. This study describes results from a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in 112 villages in...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing
Baird, Sarah - 2017
An extensive multi-disciplinary literature examines the effects of learning one's HIV status on subsequent risky sexual behaviors. However, many of these studies rely on non-experimental designs; use self-reported outcome measures, or both. This study investigates the effects of a randomly...
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Weather and Child Health in Rural Nigeria
Rabassa, Mariano - 2017
The effect of weather shocks on children's anthropometrics is investigated using the two most recent rounds of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. For this purpose, climate data for each survey cluster are interpolated using daily weather-station records from the national network. The...
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