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results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …
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results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276697
A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
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We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare … prepregnancy obesity with the exception of LGA, SGA, low birth weight and preterm birth. We find that prepregnancy obesity is …
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In this paper, we study the socio-economic determinants of birth weight with a focus on the mother's family status. We use Austrian birth register data covering all births between 1984 and 2007 and find that a mother's marriage is associated with a higher birth weight of the newborn in a range...
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In this paper, we study the socio-economic determinants of birth weight with a focus on the mother s family status. We use Austrian birth register data covering all births between 1984 and 2007 and find that a mother s marriage is associated with a higher birth weight of the newborn in a range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344837
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...
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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
Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
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