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Cost analysis of a school-based social and emotional learning and literacy intervention
Long, Katherine; Brown, Joshua L.; Jones, Stephanie M.; … - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 6 (2015) 3, pp. 545-571
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457270
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Too much of a good thing? : exploring the impact of wealth on weight
Au, Nicole; Johnston, David - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 11, pp. 1403-1421
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Racial differences in the effects of hypertension and obesity on health expenditures by diabetes patients in the US
Condliffe, Simon; Link, Charles R. - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 4/6, pp. 280-283
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The influences of portion size, context and package characteristics on snack food consumption : evidence from a U.S. rolling cross-sectional survey
Girju, Marina; Ratchford, Mark - In: Journal of food products marketing : innovations in … 25 (2019) 3, pp. 295-321
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The body mass index assimilation of US immigrants : do diet and exercise contribute?
Basu, Sukanya; Insler, Michael A. - In: Eastern economic journal 44 (2018) 3, pp. 337-363
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Association of a genetic risk score with BMI along the life-cycle: evidence from several US cohorts
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia; Upegui, Angie - 2020
We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the the effect of individuals' genetic predisposition to higher BMI - measured by BMI polygenic scores - changes over the life-cycle for several cohorts. We...
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The contribution of differences in adiposity to educational disparities in mortality in the United States
Vierboom, Yana - 2017
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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2017
When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well-accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development. To date, there is no study that compares 19th century BMIs of immigrants and US natives....
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Economic crises and obesity : evidence and mechanism from the United States
Deng, Yudong; Wang, Huixia; Wang, Chenggang - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 12, pp. 1136-1141
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Projection of US adult obesity trends based on individual BMI trajectories
Todd, Nicolas; Myrskylä, Mikko - 2022
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