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Gender differences in weight status and early school leaving in Italy
Barone, Adriana; Barra, Cristian - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 14 (2022) 3, pp. 644-666
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274162
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Fat and out in Salerno and its province : adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Souther Italy
Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Shane Niall - In: Economics and human biology 8 (2010) 1, pp. 44-57
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523077
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Food-Related Lifestyles and Their Association to Obesity in Five European Countries
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 … if BMI > 30. Logistic regressions were fitted for the aggregated sample and then by country with obese as dependent and … socio-demographics and FRL were included as independents. The prevalence of obesity in the five countries is 22%. Europeans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197213
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Is there a relationship between product attributes, nutrition labels and excess weight? : evidence from an Italian region
Banterle, Alessandro; Cavaliere, Alessia - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 49 (2014) 1, pp. 241-249
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286244
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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2015
considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young … workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528768
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Fat and out in Salerno and Province: adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy
Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper … examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the province of … and the differential effects of adolescent obesity for males and females. We find that: a) there is a strong and robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269070
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Food prices and overweight patterns in Italy
Pieroni, Luca; Lanari, Donatella; Salmasi, Luca - 2010
In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy. Cross-price elasticities of unhealthy and healthy foods estimated by a demand system provide a consistent framework to evaluate substitution effects, when a close association is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524760
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Does cigarette smoking affect body weight? : causal estimates from the clean indoor air law discontinuity
Pieroni, L.; Salmasi, L. - In: Economica 82 (2015) 328, pp. 671-704
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Educational outcomes, gender and body weight : evidence from Italy
Barone, Adriana; Nese, Annamaria - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 124 (2016) 3/4, pp. 257-282
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659036
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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - In: Youth and the crisis : unemployment, education and …, (pp. 128-145). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442145