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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio–economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339846
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Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? : evidence from field experimental data
Hafner, Lucas; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773728
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Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? : evidence from field experimental data
Hafner, Lucas; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764642
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Happy house : spousal weight and individual well-being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight … the correlation between satisfaction and own BMI is initially positive, but turns negative after some threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826901
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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Exploring the causal relation between obesity and alcohol use, and educational outcomes
Vuik, Sabine; Devaux, Marion; Cecchini, Michele - 2019
Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk … study was to assess a potential causal relationship between obesity or alcohol use, and educational outcomes, in Germany …-invariant confounders. The results suggest that the presence of obesity during childhood, as well as alcohol consumption during childhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992458
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Examining the structure of spatial health effects in Germany using Hierarchical Bayes Models
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332143
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Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects in Germany Using Hierarchical Bayes Models
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014), pp. 305-320
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich individual-level household panel data from the German SOEP with administrative county-level data to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478790
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510696