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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
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Taxation and female labor supply in Italy
Colonna, Fabrizio; Marcassa, Stefania - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29
Italy has the lowest labor supply of married women among EU countries. Moreover, the participation rate of married women is positively correlated with their husbands' income. We show that these two features can be partly explained by the tax system: a high tax rate together with tax credits and...
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Targeting fertility and female participation through the income tax
Azmat, Ghazala; González, Libertad - 2009
We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children under the age of three, while also increasing child deductions for all households with children....
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Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Strain, Michael R. - 2020
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million children out of poverty each year. Targeted to low-income households with children, and only available to those who work, the EITC contains strong incentives for non-workers to...
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A Sales Tax Is Better at Promoting Healthy Diets than the Fat Tax and the Thin Subsidy
Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2016
Rising prevalence of obesity among adults and children is a major policy issue in many countries. Two widely discussed … instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare … for healthy and unhealthy meals. We show that the policy which reduces obesity under the most general conditions is the …
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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 …
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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours
Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 9, pp. 1-30
Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with same-sex sibling's BMI as an instrument and a large set of...
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If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2016
Most economic models consider sleeping as a pre-determined and homogeneous constraint on individuals' time allocation neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations between sleep deprivation and health outcomes...
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Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A European perspective
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2013
political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main …
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