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Leaving home : food choice behavior of young German adults

Harker, Debra; Sharma, Bishnu; Harker, Michael; … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 63 (2010) 2, pp. 111-115

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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper

Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care … term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …-kindergarten-age on weight problems and gross motor skills of children aged five to nine. This dataset has the advantage to provide …

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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years

Cawley, John H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio …

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