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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607326
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Determinants of Obesity in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653219
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey: A quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Hanife Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual's Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696316
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual’s Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609948
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey : a quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Deniz; Tansel, Aysıt - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … the Turkish Health Survey (THS) prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT). The obesity indicator in our … study is the individual’s Body Mass Index (BMI). QR regression results provide robust evidence that additional years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585823
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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio–economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339846
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Decomposing Bodymass Index gaps between Mediterranean countries: A Counterfactual Quantile Regression Analysis*
Costa-Font, J; Fabbri, D; Gil, J - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
Wide cross-country variation in obesity rates have been reported within European Union member states. However, health … propose a methodology for conducting standardized cross-country comparisons in BMI. The method we adopt is based on the … estimation of the marginal density function of BMI in a given country implied by different counterfactual distributions of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328385
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“How are you feeling?” Assessing reporting bias in a subjective measure of health by quantile regression
Lunde, Lene; Løken, Katrine Vellesen - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011
In this paper we investigate reporting heterogeneity in the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) when it is used to measure current health status in cardiovascular patients. We provide a new framework to identify reporting heterogeneity using quantile regressions. EQ-5D responses are used as a proxy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358940
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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283585
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Losers and losers: Some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286266