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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment

Carson, Scott A. - 2013

Much has been written about the modern obesity epidemic, and historical BMIs are low compared to their modern counterparts. However, interpreting BMI variation is difficult because BMIs increase when weight increases or when stature decreases, and the two have different implications for human...

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US male obesity from 1800-2000 : a long term perspective

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

This paper calls into question the currently most influential model of international trade. An empirical finding by Trefler (2004, AER) and others that industrial productivity increases more strongly in liberalized industries than in non-liberalized industries has been widely accepted as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786082

Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375168

Child care subsidies and childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009

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Behavioral responses to educational investments

Frisvold, David E. - 2006

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Moral panic, reflexive embodiment and teen obesity in the USA : a case study of the impact of "weight bias"

Kline, Stephen - In: Young consumers : insight and ideas for responsible … 16 (2015) 4, pp. 407-419

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Children's health capital investment : effects of U.S. infant breastfeeding on teenage obesity

Okunade, Albert A.; Osmani, Ahmad Reshad; Ayangbayi, … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-15

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing scholarly and public policy attention. While many studies have suggested that infant breastfeeding protects against childhood obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship...

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Nineteenth century weight in the United States : revaluating net nutrition during economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2015

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...

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Body weight and United States economic development, 1840-1940

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

When traditional measures for material and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI does not fully...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990032

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