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Childhood obesity and cognitive achievement
Black, Nicole; Johnston, David; Peeters, Anna - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 9, pp. 1082-1100
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Occasional smoking and body weight among adults
Kasteridis, Panagiotis; Yen, Steven T. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 36 (2014) 3, pp. 479-503
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279819
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"Big box stores and obesity"
Marlow, Michael L. - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 938-944
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Obesity and the rate of time preference : is there a connection?
Komlos, John; Smith, Patricia K.; Bogin, Barry - 2003
We hypothesize that recent trends in U.S. and worldwide obesity are, in part, related to an increase in the marginal … obesity and time preference, as important insights are likely to result. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528670
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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 … gender effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528768
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529020
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Obesity : locating social responsibility in the context of evolving norms
Manning, L.; Kelly, J. - In: International journal of innovation & sustainable … 14 (2020) 1, pp. 8-29
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