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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824328
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496997
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468107
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623435
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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years
Cawley, John; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276758
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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years
Cawley, John H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632171
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433879
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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698336
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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742361