This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To … cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument … for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work that also employed instrumental variables estimation …

This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To … cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument … for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work that also employed instrumental variables estimation …

for e-cigarettes is motivated more by smokers' health concerns than by the desire to avoid smoking bans or higher prices …A growing share of the United States population uses e-cigarettes. In response, policymakers are considering regulating … e-cigarettes, or have already done so, due to concerns regarding e-cigarettes' public health impact. However, there is …

-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in the reporting error in BMI, while there is …-reported BMI in studies that use it as an outcome, for example, to analyse socioeconomic gradients in obesity. However, our results …We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self …

varying warnings and background colors. Each smoker had to decide which of the two packages contained cigarettes less risky …