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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 … mass index across many genetic loci. We estimate IV models of the effect of BMI on labor market outcomes using Finnish data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458875
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other differences. The twin pair difference estimates from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753798
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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 86-96
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since … manufacturing productivities, and BMI could be cubic, we take the results of the long-difference quadratic specification into … consideration and conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse U-shaped. In other words …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655284
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced … data for the 1980-2009 period. We conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623829
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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study
Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since … manufacturing productivities, and BMI could be cubic, we take the results of the long-difference quadratic specification into … consideration and conclude that the relationship between all prominent growth indicators and BMI is inverse U-shaped. In other words …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619180
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Are some neighborhoods bad for your waistline? : a test of neighborhood exposure effects on BMI
Ou, Susan - In: Journal of health economics 63 (2019), pp. 52-63
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Black-white marital matching : race, anthropometrics, and socioeconomics
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 82 (2016) 4, pp. 399-421
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The impact of BMI on mental health : further evidence from genetic markers
Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2020
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National … exploit variation in a polygenic score (PGS) for BMI within two complementary econometric methods that differ in the … assumptions they employ. First, we use the BMI PGS as an IV and adjust for PGSs for other factors (depression and educational …
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