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Economic contextual factors and child body mass index

Powell, Lisa M.; Chaloupka, Frank J. - In: Economic aspects of obesity, (pp. 127-144). 2011

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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

Powell, Lisa M. - 2009

statistically significantly related to a higher body mass index (BMI) percentile ranking among children with greater effects among … low-income children: fruit and vegetable price elasticity for BMI is estimated to be 0.25 for the full sample and 0 ….60 among low-income children. Fast food prices are statistically significantly related to child weight only in cross …

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Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

Powell, Lisa M. - 2010

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Implications of fast food restaurant concentration for preschool-aged childhood obesity

Newman, Christopher L.; Howlett, Elizabeth; Burton, Scot - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 8, pp. 1573-1580

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The effect of fast-food restaurants on childhood obesity : a school level analysis

Alviola, Pedro A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael R.; … - In: Economics and human biology 12 (2014), pp. 110-119

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The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States

Meltzer, David O. - 2009

Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined by as much as half over...

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