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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494192
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Association of a genetic risk score with BMI along the life-cycle: evidence from several US cohorts
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia; Upegui, Angie - 2020
We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the the effect of individuals' genetic predisposition to higher BMI - measured by BMI polygenic scores - changes over the life-cycle for several cohorts. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288962
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Mind the gap : revisiting the concentration index for overweight
Madden, David - 2017
Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736939
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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments
Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798204
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Does college selectivity reduce obesity? : a partial identification approach
Brunello, Giorgio; Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz de … - 2022
tertiary education -measured by college selectivity- causally affects obesity prevalence in the medium run (by age 24-34) and … average treatment effect of college selectivity on obesity. We find that attending a more selective college causally reduces … obesity, both in the medium and in the longer run. We provide evidence that the mechanisms through which the impact of college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414602
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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520503
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Heterogeneous treatment effects with mismeasured endogenous treatment
Ura, Takuya - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 1335-1370
This paper studies the identifying power of an instrumental variable in the nonparametric heterogeneous treatment effect framework when a binary treatment is mismeasured and endogenous. Using a binary instrumental variable, I characterize the sharp identified set for the local average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994692
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327366
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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt
Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012
) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289881
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity : evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012 - This version 21st May 2012
Despite increasing knowledge on its adverse consequences, obesity prevalence across the U.S. has been rising markedly … argued to exacerbate the prevalence of obesity is the distribution of income. Augmenting data from 12 consecutive waves of … of variations in body mass and obesity across the U.S. It finds that they have a significant positive effect on BMI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552221