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Overweight and poor? : on the relationship between income and the body mass index
Jolliffe, Dean - 2010
distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …, increases in income are correlated with healthier BMI values. -- overweight ; obesity ; body mass index ; unconditional quantile …
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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Jolliffe, Dean - 2010
distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134989
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Energy poverty and obesity
Prakash, Kushneel; Munyanyi, Musharavati Ephraim - 2021
Obesity is a major health concern in both developed and developing nations. Yet, evidence on the determinants of … obesity is relatively limited. We contribute to the literature on the determinants of obesity by empirically examining the … effects of energy poverty on obesity.Using 14 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey …
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A multilevel approach to explain child mortality and undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Misselhorn, Mark - 2006
While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South Asia. In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries su er by far the worst from high rates of child mortality. This di erent pattern of child mortality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265078
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Health and wealth on the roller-voaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011
Madden, David - 2013
This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). It also examines developments in the correlation between the two. Income poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744041
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Health and income poverty in Ireland, 2003 - 2006
Madden, David - 2008
Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723862
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Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty
Calvi, Rossella - 2018
Almost half of missing women in India are of post-reproductive ages. I show that intra-household gender inequality and gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link women's intra-household bargaining power to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917579
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Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603850
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Getting warmer : fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being
Davillas, Apostolos; Burlinson, Andrew; Liu, Hui-Hsuan - 2021
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively measured biomarker data. Over and above the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597703
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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty Among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, Sudhanshu K.; Lyngskor, J. W. - 2009
In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and the second at the nutritional level. Nutritional level has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064692