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Studies have found that education differences in women’s body weight increase until middle adulthood. The explanatory mechanisms behind this increase are not well-understood. This study examined the role of education differences in the prevalence of motherhood as a risk factor for weight gain...
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-effects models, this study examined the connection between maternal work hours and child overweight or obesity. Following children in … hours (1–24, 25–34) or longer hours (41 or more) was both associated with increases in child overweight and obesity. These … developmentally dynamic relationship. Among preschool children (ages 2 to 5), we found lower likelihood of child overweight and …
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Childhood and adolescence overweight and obesity have implications for both health consequences and economic burden …, the negative correlation between dietary diversity and the incidence of overweight or obesity is stronger, and the … can help to lower the risk of overweight and obesity among primary school children, presumably through increasing the …
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convenience foods. The consequence is the increasing rate of overweight and obesity through the population and in particular among …
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significant and negative impact on body mass index and the probability of being overweight for males, while no significant impact …
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We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK using the British Household … in the UK. While overweight and obese men enjoy a wage premium, overweight and obese immigrant men face a wage penalty … and are less likely to work in a white collar job. Overweight immigrant women are substantially more likely to suffer work …
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This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
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examine the association amongst income and overweight. The data used for this study are from the China Health and Nutrition … that, as opposed to developed countries, low-income people are less inclined to be overweight in China, a country in … Survey (CHNS). Estimations are conducted for overweight initiation, cessation, and participation mirroring a decision to …
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In diesem Beitrag stellen wir eine Methode zur Bestimmung des optimalen Risikopools in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung vor. Unser Hauptergebnis ist, dass eine Erstattung der Kosten bei einem bestimmten Kostenniveau die Anreize zur Risikoselektion am stärksten mindert, wenn ein relativ...
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