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The gender-specific role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction in piecewise and simultaneous equations models
Hübler, Olaf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 5, pp. 653-676
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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The effect of weight on labor market outcomes : an application of genetic instrumental variables
Böckerman, Petri; Cawley, John H.; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2016
The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity …, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper … social income transfers, although we caution that the results are based on small samples, and are sensitive to specification …
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The elusive link between income and obesity
Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie - In: Journal of economic surveys 36 (2022) 4, pp. 935-968
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Economic stress and body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie - In: Studies in microeconomics 9 (2021) 2, pp. 256-282
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Income and health in Tanzania : an instrumental variable approach
Fichera, Eleonora; Savage, David - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 500-515
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Income and armed civil confllict : an instrumental variables approach
Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Lujala, Päivi - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 23 (2017) 4, pp. 1-7
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Misreporting and misclassification: implications for socioeconomic disparities in body-mass index and obesity
Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf; Lindblad, Ulf - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (2015) 1, pp. 5-20
of obesity are sensitive to whether BMI or waist circumference is used to define obesity. Education and income are used … estimated educational and income disparities in BMI and obesity. In the misreporting part we find that women with higher … and women. Among women, the consequence is a steeper income gradient when obesity is defined using waist circumference …
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Fat, muscles, and wages
Bozoyan, Christiane; Wolbring, Tobias - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 356-363
Recent studies in health economics have generated two important findings: that as a measure of fatness the body mass index (BMI) is biased; and that, when it comes to analyzing wage correlates, both fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat (BF) are better suited to the task. We validate these findings for...
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