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Calorie information effects on consumers' food choices : sources of observed gender heterogeneity
Heiman, Amir; Lowengart, Oded - In: Journal of business research : JBR 67 (2014) 5, pp. 964-973
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Does suburbanization cause obesity?
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Ross, Amanda - 2014
In this paper, we examine the effect of suburbanization on obesity rates. Our study is an improvement over the existing literature because we will use county level data for our analysis, enabling us to look at the effect of moving from the central city to the suburbs. Previous research has only...
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The impact of taxes on healthy consumer habits
Turjak, Sofija; Raič, Mario; Unukić, Ivana - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602464
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Public health shock, intervention policies, and health behaviors : evidence from COVID-19
Hasanzadeh, Samira; Alishahi, Modjgan - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 1, pp. 71-88
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries, including the U.S., adopted intervention policies aimed at averting the spread. However, these policies may have led to significant changes in public health behaviors. We use Google search queries to examine how state government actions are...
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Job loss and health spillovers in the family
Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jenstrom, Laura; … - 2020
A sizable literature documents that displaced workers suffer substantial negative consequences in the labor market and health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient...
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Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2019
The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...
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The health consequence of rising housing prices in China
Xu, Yuanwei; Wang, Feicheng - 2020
China has experienced a rapid boom in real estate prices in the last few decades, leading to a substantial increase in living costs and heavy financial burdens on households. Using an instrumental variable approach, this paper exploits spatial and temporal variation in housing price appreciation...
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Graduate migration in Italy : lifestyle or necessity? : ERSA 2011 - conference paper
Marinelli, Elisabetta - 2011
This paper studies the locational choice of Italian mobile graduates, tackling simultaneously three aspects. First it … across Italy, to those who move from the least developed South to the Centre-North and those who move within the richer … degree. Results indicate that social networks are a much stronger determinant of the destination of graduates than regional …
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
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Young people in crisis : NEETs and unemployed in EU regions : paper to be presented at: 53rd ERSA Congress, 27-31 August 2013 - Palermo, Italy
Bruno, Giovanni; Marelli, Enrico; Signorelli, Marcello - 2013
This paper assesses the impact of the crisis on the NEET rate and on the youth unemployment rate (YUR) of the EU …
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