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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment
Carson, Scott A. - 2013
decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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Nineteenth century weight in the United States : revaluating net nutrition during economic development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
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Healthy vs. unhealthy food : a strategic choice for firms and consumers
Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez-Ibeas, Roberto - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-8
they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …
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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets
Carson, Scott Alan - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375168
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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective
Carson, Scott Alan - 2013
This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786082
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Food prices and overweight patterns in Italy
Pieroni, Luca; Lanari, Donatella; Salmasi, Luca - 2010
In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy. Cross-price elasticities of unhealthy and healthy foods estimated by a demand system provide a consistent framework to evaluate substitution effects, when a close association is...
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Young Latino Children Obesity : The Importance of Socioeconomic Status, Home Language, TV Watching, and Physical Activity
Galindo, Caludia - 2017
The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961463
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Socioeconomic factors associated with being overweight or obese in Suriname
Khadan, Jeetendra; Spencer, Nekeisha; Strobl, Eric; … - 2021
This paper applies probit regression models to a nationally representative household survey dataset collected in 2016-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our results indicate that women, the elderly, and...
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Hooked on weight control : an economic theory of anorexia nervosa, and its impact on health and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2021
In this paper, I combine economic theories of health behavior and addiction in order to explain the phenomenon of … anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity. Individuals consume normal goods and foods and can work off excess … calories with physical exercise. There exists a healthy body mass index and deviations from it increasingly cause health …
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A model of errors in BMI based on selfreported and measured anthropometrics with evidence from Brazilian data
Davillas, Apostolos; Oliveira, Victor Hugo de; Jones, … - 2022
Health Survey in Brazil. Indeed, a small but statistically significant fraction of measured anthropometrics are attributed to …-reported data under-estimates the true BMI distribution. Analysis of regression models for health care utilization shows little …
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