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Obesity, poverty and public policy

Griffith, Rachel - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 644, pp. 1235-1258

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The effect of TV viewing on children’s obesity risk and mental well-being : evidence from the UK digital switchover

Nieto, Adrián; Suhrcke, Marc - In: Journal of health economics 80 (2021), pp. 1-20

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179345

Gluttony and Sloth? : calories, labor market activity and the rise of obesity

Griffith, Rachel; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Lührmann, Melanie - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 14 (2016) 6, pp. 1253-1286

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Cash incentives and unhealthy food consumption

Flores, Miguel; Rivas, Javier - In: Bulletin of economic research 69 (2017) 1, pp. 42-56

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Height, Weight, and Body Mass of the British Population Since 1820

Floud, Roderick - 1998

The average height of a population has become a familiar measure of that population's nutritional status. This paper extends the use of anthropometric data in the study of history by exploring published evidence on the weight, as well as the height, of British populations in the nineteenth and...

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Body mass index and the distribution of housework among British couples

Bellido, Héctor; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - In: Review of Economics of the Household 21 (2023) 4, pp. 1247-1268

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'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World : Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic

Smith, Trenton G. - 2017

Obesity rates have risen dramatically in the US since the 1980s, but well-identified studies have struggled to explain the magnitude of the observed changes. In this paper, we estimate the causal impact of economic insecurity on obesity rates. Specifically, we construct a synthetic panel of...

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Perez-Cueto, Federico; Verbeke, Wim; de Barcellos, … - 2014

This paper’s objective is to investigate the associations between obesity and Food-Related Lifestyles (FRL) in five European countries. A cross-sectional web-based survey was carried out in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece and Poland, January 2008, with quota samples on gender (male, female),...

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Bathing Facilities and Health Phronesis : Tackling English Obesity

Huston, Simon - 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has raised questions about public health system fragility or lack of health phronesis (practical wisdom). The UK is one of the unhealthiest developed nations on the planet with over 35% of its population projected to be obese by 2025. Notwithstanding, local sports...

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Does using planning policy to restrict fast food outlets reduce inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity?

Xiang, Huasheng; Albani, Viviana; Goffe, Louis; Akhter, … - 2022

Half of local governments in England use planning policy to promote a healthier environment. In 2015, Gateshead Council … in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning permission for any new fast-food outlet. We … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

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