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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607326
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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653219
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey: A quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Hanife Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696316
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual’s Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585823
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual’s Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609948
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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country
Karaoglan, Deniz - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI).QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965001
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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country
Karaoglan, Deniz - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965378
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The effect of sorority membership on eating disorders and body mass index
Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang - 2013
Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating disorders using data from the American College...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777030
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The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index
Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang Terrizzi, … - 2013
Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating disorders using data from the American College...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319462
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Role of time preferences in explaining the burden of malnutrition : evidence from urban India
Dang, Archana - 2020
savings (a proxy for time preferences) to BMI; and a primary survey of 885 adults conducted in West Delhi. Using quantile … the present or lower patience will have poorer health outcomes: that is, they will either be underweight (low BMI) or … overweight (high BMI). The pathway from time preferences to BMI is through food. To empirically validate these predictions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234427