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Does more money make you fat? : the effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity
Akee, Randall; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010
) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra …
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Essays in the economics of obesity
Rashad, Inas - 2004
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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
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The consequences of rising youth obesity for US Military Academy admissions
Cawley, John H.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 25 (2013) 1, pp. 32-51
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2013
We provide new evidence on the extent to which the demand for cigarettes is derived from the demand for weight control (i.e. weight loss or avoidance of weight gain). We utilize nationally representative data that provide the most direct evidence to date on this question: individuals are...
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The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight control
Cawley, John H.; Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722762
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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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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health : The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity
Datar, Ashlesha; Nicosia, Nancy; Samek, Anya Savikhin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and consequently their children, to different...
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