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Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired in the household. We investigate whether parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about...
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included anthropometric measurements of children and self-administered questionnaires for parents, including WTP assessment … overweight/obese children showed with 61.4%, significantly more frequently, their general WTP than the others with 47.2% (p = 0 ….001). Mean WTP was €23.04 (99% confidence interval (CI) [22.45; 23.75]) per month. Parents of centrally obese children showed …
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has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …
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has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …
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externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …
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We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
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