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Tobacco Taxes and Smoking Bans Impact Differently on Obesity and Eating Habits
Dragone, Davide - 2013
Policy interventions aimed at affecting a specific behavior may also indirectly affect individual choices in other domains. In this paper we study the direct effect of tobacco excise taxes and smoking bans on smoking behavior, and the indirect effect on eating behavior and body weight. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082937
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Tobacco taxes and smoking bans impact differently on obesity and eating habits
Dragone, Davide; Manaresi, Francesco; Savorelli, Luca - 2013
Policy interventions aimed at affecting a specific behavior may also indirectly affect individual choices in other domains. In this paper we study the direct effect of tobacco excise taxes and smoking bans on smoking behavior, and the indirect effect on eating behavior and body weight. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731016
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Chain restaurant calorie posting laws, obesity, and consumer welfare
Courtemanche, Charles; Frisvold, David E.; … - 2020
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194955
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Long-Term Effects of Diabetes Prevention : Evaluation of the M.O.B.I.L.I.S. Program for Obese Persons
Haeussler, Jan - 2013
In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely …-effective strategy to cope with the obesity epidemic. We examine this question in a simulation model based on the results of the M ….O.B.I.L.I.S program, a German lifestyle intervention to reduce obesity, which is directed on the high-risk group of people who are already …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074550
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Long-Term Effects of Diabetes Prevention : Evaluation of the M.O.B.I.L.I.S. Program for Obese Persons
Haeussler, Jan; Breyer, Friedrich - 2013
In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely …-effective strategy to cope with the obesity epidemic. We examine this question in a simulation model based on the results of the M ….O.B.I.L.I.S program, a German lifestyle intervention to reduce obesity, which is directed on the high-risk group of people who are already …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153035
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The effect of school district nutrition policies on dietary intake and overweight : a synthetic control approach
Bauhoff, Sebastian - In: Economics and human biology 12 (2014), pp. 45-55
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386071
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act on workplace absenteeism of overweight and obese workers
Grumstrup, Ethan; Hossain, Md. Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2019
significant among women, but not among men. Furthermore, our estimates (using a Tobit model) indicate that the obese (overweight …) workers missed 0.33 (0.46) fewer days after the ACA. Again, the effect is concentrated among women. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116948
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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494192
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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520503
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The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers
Grumstrup, Ethan - 2019
significant among women, but not among men. Furthermore, our estimates (using a Tobit model) indicate that the obese (overweight …) workers missed 0.33 (0.46) fewer days after the ACA. Again, the effect is concentrated among women. Our results show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862469