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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment
Carson, Scott A. - 2013
decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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Behavioral responses to educational investments
Frisvold, David E. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971827
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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 … obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is fragile. Using the health capital development theory, this study …
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849054
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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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Mortality attributable to obesity among middle-aged adults in the United States
Mehta, Neil K.; Chang, Virginia W.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Demography : a publication of the Population … 46 (2009) 4, pp. 851-872
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Obesity persistence and duration dependence : evidence from a cohort of US adults ; 1985 - 2010
Daouli, Joan; Davillas, Apostolos; Demoussis, Michael P.; … - In: Economics and human biology 12 (2014), pp. 30-44
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Intercontinental differences in overweight of adopted Koreans in the United States and Europe
Ulijaszek, Stanley J.; Schwekendiek, Daniel - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 345-350
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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...
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The connection between working hours and body mass index in the U.S. : a time use analysis
Abramowitz, Joelle - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 1, pp. 131-154
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