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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018
This paper examines weight loss and the formation of healthy habits through cash rewards in the context of a multi-phase randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese individuals. We find effects of monetary incentives for weight loss of up to EUR 300 on body weight during all experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823823
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Habit formation, obesity, and cash rewards
Augurzky, Boris; Bauer, Thomas K.; Reichert, Arndt R.; … - 2018
This paper examines weight loss and the formation of healthy habits through cash rewards in the context of a multi-phase randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese individuals. We find effects of monetary incentives for weight loss of up to EUR 300 on body weight during all experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846799
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336980
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015 - Rev. August 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343082
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index in Barcelona 1986-2016 : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Bartoll-Roca, Xavier; Serral, Gemma; Ariza, Carles - 2021
Mass Index (BMI) distribution by educational level, employment situation and neighborhood income for 1986 and 2016 in … Barcelona. The contribution of these factors to changes in BMI between the years at distinct percentiles is illustrated using … the Oaxaca decomposition method. It is confirmed heterogeneity in BMI values at different percentiles for both years. BMI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243528
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Assessment of a spatial panel model for the efficiency analysis of the heterogonous healthcare systems in the world
Jeleskovic, Vahidin; Schwanebeck, Benjamin - 2012
Various panel models were presented to resolve the ranking of global health care systems according to efficiency. However, in terms of the spatial distribution of statistical units, spatial dependence as a result of various forms of spatial interactions caused biased estimators in classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738033
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Allowing for Heterogeneity in the Decomposition of Measures of Inequality in Health
Jones, Andrew M. - 2007
This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an application to the GHQ measure of psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729635
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Time preference and health : the problem of obesity
Cavaliere, Alessia; De Marchi, Elisa; Banterle, Alessandro - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011765162
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Paternalistic taxation of unhealthy food and the intensive versus extensive margin of obesity
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2018
This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800144
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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016
In this paper we estimate the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where the average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549653