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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2020
This paper examines the effect of soda taxes on the consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe: Hungary imposed a "Public Health Product Tax" on several unhealthy products including sodas in 2011. France introduced solely a tax on sodas, containing sugar or artificial...
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Do soda taxes affect the consumption and health of school-aged children? : evidence from France and Hungary
Gangl, Selina - 2021 - Revised version
This paper examines the effect of two different soda taxes on consumption behaviour and health of school-aged children in Europe: Hungary imposed a Public Health Product Tax (PHPT) on several unhealthy products in 2011. France introduced solely a soda tax, containing sugar or artificial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670748
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Non-linear relationship between maternal work hours and child body weight : evidence from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study
Li, Jianghong; Akaliyski, Plamen; Schäfer, Jakob; … - 2017
-effects models, this study examined the connection between maternal work hours and child overweight or obesity. Following children in … obesity when mothers worked 24 h or less per week, compared to when mothers worked 35 or more hours. This effect was stronger … hours (1-24, 25-34) or longer hours (41 or more) was both associated with increases in child overweight and obesity. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002448
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How do parents respond to regulation of sugary drinks in child care? : evidence from California
Hu, Jiafei; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yuan, Haishan - 2019
To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their preferences for sugary drinks in the long run. Whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062871
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Taxes on unhealthy food and externalities in the parental choice of children's diet
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2019
This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103592
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Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy
McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment, childcare during infancy and the overweight status of pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching addresses the issue of potential selection bias, quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418096
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The nutrition transition and indicators of child malnutrition
Kimenju, Simon C.; Qaim, Matin - 2014
We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457138
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Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy
McDonnell, Thérèse; Doyle, Orla - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465683
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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528670
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The effect of piped water at home on childhood overweight rate : experimental evidence from urban Morocco
Ritter, Patricia I. - 2020 - Revised April 2020
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