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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins

Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins

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Time spent exercising and obesity : an application of Lewbel's instrumental variables method

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Time spent exercising and obesity : an application of Lewbel's instrumental variables method

Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2020

This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day - rather than average daily time use over an extended period - is used...

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