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Peer effects on obesity in a sample of European children

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2015

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which …

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Obesity and economic performance of young workers in Italy

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2015

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

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Economic growth and obesity : findings of an Obesity Kuznets curve

Grecu, Anca M.; Rotthoff, Kurt W. - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 7/9, pp. 539-543

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Food industry approach to rising prevalence of children obesity in the Czech Republic

Olšanová, Květa - In: Central European business review : CEBR 3 (2014) 3, pp. 7-15

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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...

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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income

O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

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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Modelling social dynamics (of obesity) and thresholds

Wirl, Franz; Feichtinger, Gustav - In: Games 1 (2010) 4, pp. 395-414

that follows its own motion, of course driven by agents’ behavior. The topical issue of obesity serves as motivation and …

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Healthy vs. unhealthy food : a strategic choice for firms and consumers

Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez-Ibeas, Roberto - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-8

In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the strategic choice made by firms regarding the type of food they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health costs when the food they consume has unhealthy...

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Women’s bodies as sites of control : inadvertent stigma and exclusion in social marketing

Gurrieri, Lauren; Previte, Josephine; Brace-Govan, Jan - In: Journal of macromarketing : examining the interactions … 33 (2013) 2, pp. 128-143

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Food prices and body fatness among youths

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race … fast-food restaurant food lead to improvements in obesity outcomes among youths. We also find that an increase in the real …

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