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Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) pertaining to …Obesity is significantly more prevalent among non-Hispanic African-American (henceforth "black") women than among non …]Hispanic white American (henceforth gwhiteh) women. These differences have persisted without much alteration since the early 1970s …
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In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late … 19th and early 20th century data set of over 20 US prisons to assess migrant net nutrition. Native-born individuals were … characteristics, native-born females had lower BMIs than men; however, foreign-born women's' BMIs were higher than domestic-born women …
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the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …
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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...
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The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non … aimed at reducing the over-prescribing of opioids on women's wellbeing by examining its effects on intimate partner violence … generated a downstream benefit for women by significantly reducing their overall exposure to IPV and IPV-involved injuries by 9 …
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We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
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This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...
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