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Going universal : the impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

Holford, Angus; Rabe, Birgitta - In: Journal of public economics plus 3 (2022), pp. 1-19

to high quality universal free lunches increases healthy weight prevalence and reduces obesity prevalence and BMI by the …

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Trends in the School Lunch Program : Changes in Selection, Nutrition & Health

Bonomo, Therese; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There has been significant media attention on the issue of childhood obesity, leading policymakers to reform the … nutritional content maps into obesity outcomes, using panel data on a nationally representative cohort of children, tracking them … participation in the school lunch program leads to weight gain, as measured by changes in obesity, overweight, and BMI. These …

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The Effects of Prospective Mate Quality on Investments in Healthy Body Weight Among Single Women

Harris, Matthew - 2015

This paper examines how a single female's investment in healthy body weight is affected by the quality of single males in her marriage market. A principle concern in estimation is the presence of market-level unobserved heterogeneity that may be correlated with changes in single male quality. To...

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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions

Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...

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Gaining Weight through Retirement ? Results from the SHARE Survey

Godard, Mathilde - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014

risk of obesity. No effects are found among women. …

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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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Adjusting body mass for measurement error with invalid validation data

Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2014

obesity rates. …

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A model of errors in BMI based on selfreported and measured anthropometrics with evidence from Brazilian data

Davillas, Apostolos; Oliveira, Victor Hugo de; Jones, … - 2022

The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often …

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Obesity and health-care costs in Switzerland : dealing with endogeneity in non-linear regression models

Meyer, Stefan - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 152 (2016) 3, pp. 243-286

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Obesity and happiness

Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010

This paper provides insight on the relationship between obesity and happiness. Using the latest available cross … that in all three countries obesity has a negative and significant effect on the subjective well being of individuals. For …

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