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The Sweet Life : The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood

Gertler, Paul J.; Gračner, Tadeja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased...

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Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow : income and risky choices amongst young adults in the UK

Coppola, Gianluigi; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Pinto, Claudio - 2015

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free choice. The main underlying assumption is that...

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Does using planning policy to restrict fast food outlets reduce inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity?

Xiang, Huasheng; Albani, Viviana; Goffe, Louis; Akhter, … - 2022

Half of local governments in England use planning policy to promote a healthier environment. In 2015, Gateshead Council in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning permission for any new fast-food outlet. We explore if this policy is associated with changes in...

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Born to be wide? : exploring correlations in mother and adolescent body mass index using data from the British household panel survey

Brown, Heather; Roberts, Jennifer - 2012

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Advertising healthy eating to young consumers : insights from English and Swedish adolescents

Sherrington, Anna Maria; Oakes, Steve; Hunter-Jones, … - In: Journal of marketing management : JMM ; journal of the … 37 (2021) 15/16, pp. 1624-1655

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Fast food proximity and weight gain in childhood and adolescence : evidence from Great Britain

Libuy, Nicolás; Church, David; Ploubidis, George; … - In: Health economics 33 (2024) 3, pp. 449-465

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Perez-Cueto, Federico; Verbeke, Wim; de Barcellos, … - 2014

This paper’s objective is to investigate the associations between obesity and Food-Related Lifestyles (FRL) in five European countries. A cross-sectional web-based survey was carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece and Poland, January 2008, with quota samples on gender (male, female),...

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The Impact of Degree Class on the First Destinations of Graduates : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2010

destinations of UK graduates. We exploit the discontinuous relationship between degree class and the mean grade achieved by … graduates in their last year at university, which is induced by the administrative rules used for the determination of degree … class. More specifically, we compare the average first-destination outcome of graduates with a mean grade that just allowed …

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Education and Obesity in Four OECD Countries

Sassi, Franco; Devaux, Marion; Church, Jody; Cecchini, … - 2009

An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In particular, education appears to be associated with a lower likelihood of...

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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking

Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021

Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal...

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