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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276697
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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265952
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Body Weight of Italians : The Weight of Education
Atella, Vincenzo - 2014
In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as theoretical reference an energy balance model. Our data consist of individual level data from eight waves of the Italian survey on life-styles. We use Quantile Regression (QR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068351
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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Childhood Influences on Youth Obesity
Classen, Timothy J. - 2014
become an obese or overweight youth. We use this model to test whether it is possible to forecast obesity and overweight … among youth. Comparing Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) scores from these forecasts, we find that a model using … childhood covariates does as well in forecasting youth obesity and overweight as a model using the covariate values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752325
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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528667
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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015
different fatness measures. Peer effects are larger in Spain, Italy, and Cyprus - the more collectivist regions in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528670
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257592
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260064
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The relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and preschool obesity
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal origins hypothesis posits that the intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449098