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Any press is good press? : the unanticipated effects of Title IX investigations on university outcomes
Lindo, Jason M.; Marcotte, Dave E.; Palmer, Jane E.; … - In: Economics of education review 73 (2019), pp. 1-17
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215781
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BMI growth rates and the nutrition transition : the role of income, inequality and income growth in Russia
Butzlaff, Iris - 2016
This study analyzes the extent to which nutritional status in terms of weight change has been affected by the income distribution as the economy has grown. Is BMI growth different at different tails of the income distribution? Health and nutritional outcomes are not normally expected to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441503
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Does overweight and obesity impact on self-rated health? : evidence using instrumental variables ordered probit models
Cullinan, John; Gillespie, Paddy - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 10, pp. 1341-1348
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543169
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458875
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Broke, ill, and obese : is there an effect of household debt on health?
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014) 3, pp. 525-541
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A weighty issue revisited : the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany
Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 40/42, pp. 4364-4376
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294556
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Taxing highly processed foods: impacts on obesity and underweight in Sub-Saharan Africa
Boysen, Ole; Boysen-Urban, Kirsten; Bradford, Harvey; … - In: Visionen für eine Agrar- und Ernährungspolitik nach …, (pp. 201-219). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321763
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Supermarket shopping and nutritional outcomes : a panel data analysis for urban Kenya
Demmler, Kathrin M.; Ecker, Olivier; Qaim, Matin - 2017
Overweight and obesity are growing health problems in many developing countries. Rising obesity rates are the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615651
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Obesity and health-care costs in Switzerland : dealing with endogeneity in non-linear regression models
Meyer, Stefan - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 152 (2016) 3, pp. 243-286
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567976
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How cohabitation, marriage, separation and divorce influence BMI : a prospective panel study
Mata, Jutta; Richter, David; Schneider, Thorsten; … - 2018
Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880775