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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of BMI on labour market outcomes
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2012
. -- obesity ; non-classical measurement error ; auxiliary data ; instrumental variables …
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Changes in BMI in a cohort of Irish children : some decompositions and counterfactuals
Madden, David - 2018
This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and decomposes the change into parts attributable to changes in observable characteristics and changes in returns to observable characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the...
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Childhood obesity and maternal education in Ireland
Madden, David - 2016
This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data … education, is employed. In addition, the depth and severity of obesity are examined as well as the incidence. Finally, the use … of two waves of longitudinal data permits the analysis of the persistence of obesity. Results show that overall childhood …
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BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland
Madden, David - 2019
of overweight and obesity. Analysis is carried out by gender and by maternal education. In general, the degree of … obesity for girls. …
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Child and adolescent obesity in Ireland : a longitudinal perspective
Madden, David - 2016
This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in … Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic … the data, transitions into and out of obesity are examined, with higher rates of transition into obesity observed for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515575
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Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2021
Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...
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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of BMI on labour market outcomes
O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763447
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An examination of the relationships between service use and alternative measures of obesity among community-dwelling adults in Ireland
Doherty, Edel; Queally, Michelle; O'Neill, Ciarán J. - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 16 (2015) 9, pp. 951-956
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Genes and the intergenerational transmission of BMI and obesity
Classen, Timothy J.; Thompson, Owen - In: Economics and human biology 23 (2016), pp. 121-133
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