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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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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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Obesity in organizational context

Levay, Charlotta - In: Human relations 67 (2014) 5, pp. 565-585

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Has the burden of obesity declined in America since 1980?

Sok Chul Hong - In: Korea and the world economy 14 (2013) 2, pp. 343-379

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Does advertising on television cause childhood obesity? : a longitudinal analysis

Beales, J. Howard; Kulick, Robert - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 32 (2013) 2, pp. 185-194

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Measuring obesity in the absence of a gold standard

O'Neill, Donal - 2014

black men having a significantly lower obesity rate among black men. The fact that neither the BMI nor the BIA based … obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative … measures of obesity. In this paper we draw on work in other areas of epidemiology and use latent class analysis to evaluate …

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