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The gender-specific role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction in piecewise and simultaneous equations models
Hübler, Olaf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 5, pp. 653-676
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Does overweight and obesity impact on self-rated health? : evidence using instrumental variables ordered probit models
Cullinan, John; Gillespie, Paddy - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 10, pp. 1341-1348
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383690
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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Too much of a good thing? : exploring the impact of wealth on weight
Au, Nicole; Johnston, David - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 11, pp. 1403-1421
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433978
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Do high consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages respond differently to proce changes? : a finite mixture IV-Tobit approach
Etilé, Fabrice; Sharma, Anurag - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 9, pp. 1147-1163
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Time spent exercising and obesity : an application of Lewbel's instrumental variables method
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242566
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Time spent exercising and obesity : an application of Lewbel's instrumental variables method
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2020
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day - rather than average daily time use over an extended period - is used...
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Neighbourhood convenience stores and childhood weight outcomes : an instrumental variable approach
Zeng, Di; Thomsen, Michael; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Rouse, … - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 3, pp. 288-302
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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version
low and medium income and with an overweight father seem to react most strongly to differences in daycare supply. …
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