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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, 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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The effect of sorority membership on eating disorders and body mass index
Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang - 2013
Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating disorders using data from the American College...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777030
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Role of time preferences in explaining the burden of malnutrition : evidence from urban India
Dang, Archana - 2020
savings (a proxy for time preferences) to BMI; and a primary survey of 885 adults conducted in West Delhi. Using quantile … the present or lower patience will have poorer health outcomes: that is, they will either be underweight (low BMI) or … overweight (high BMI). The pathway from time preferences to BMI is through food. To empirically validate these predictions, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234427
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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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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values
Carson, Scott Alan - 2017
When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761584
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Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? : evidence from field experimental data
Hafner, Lucas; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764642
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Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? : evidence from field experimental data
Hafner, Lucas; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2017
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773728
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Socioeconomic factors associated with being overweight or obese in Suriname
Khadan, Jeetendra; Spencer, Nekeisha; Strobl, Eric; … - 2021
-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our … nutritional guidelines as well as the design and implementation of targeted obesity-reduction policies that recognize that being … influence action in all countries in the Caribbean that lack policies to address obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583761