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Han, Euna; Norton, Edward C.; Powell, Lisa M. - 2009

"Previous estimates on the association between body weight and wages in the literature have been contingent on education and occupation. This paper examines the direct effect of BMI on wages and the indirect effects operating through education and occupation choice, particularly for late-teen...

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The impact of income on the weight of elderly Americans

Cawley, John H.; Moran, John R.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2008

"This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We exploit this natural...

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Is dietary knowledge enough? : Hunger, stress, and other roadblocks to healthy eating

Mancino, Lisa (contributor); Kinsey, Jean D. (contributor) - 2008

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Factors affecting nutritional attitudes among university adults

Nasir, Jamal Abdul; Tahir, M. H. - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 11 (2017) 2, pp. 644-652

study is to assess the nutritional believes, practice, awareness and participation of university adults towards nutrition. A … significant variables that influence the adult’s attitudes of nutrition awareness. The results revealed that nearly 70 per cent of … the adults have no regular meal routine per day. Three types of multivariate models (nutritional awareness, obesity index …

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Crowdsourcing Novel Childhood Predictors of Adult Obesity

Bevelander, Kirsten; Kaipainen, Kirsikka; Swain, Robert; … - 2014

Effective and simple screening tools are needed to detect behaviors that are established early in life and have a significant influence on weight gain later in life. Crowdsourcing could be a novel and potentially useful tool to assess childhood predictors of adult obesity. This exploratory study...

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Obesity, cigarette prices, youth access laws and adolescent smoking initiation

Cawley, John H.; Markowitz, Sara; Tauras, John A. - In: Eastern economic journal 32 (2006) 1, pp. 149-170

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Characterizing the Distribution of Macronutrient Intake Among U.S. Adults : A Quantile Regression Approach

Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James; Smallwood, … - 2010

Since the risk of dietary inadequacy or excess is greater at the tails of the nutrient intake distributions than at the mean, marginal effects of explanatory variables estimated at the conditional mean using ordinary least squares may be of limited value in characterizing these distributions....

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Blowing smoke : how appeal type influences subjective norms and intentions to consume electronic cigarettes

Murdock, Mitchel R.; Rajagopal, Priyali - In: The psychology of consumer and social influence : …, (pp. 49-64). 2016

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Religion and risky health behaviors among US adolescents and adults

Fletcher, Jason; Kumar, Sanjeev - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 104 (2014), pp. 123-140

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Economic conditions in early life and circulatory disease mortality

Masters, Ryan K. - In: Population and development review 44 (2018) 3, pp. 519-553

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