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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
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the effect of sports activity on health. OLS models show that sports activity significantly decreases overweight, sleeping … problems, headaches, back problems, and perceived health impediments in everyday activities and significantly increases health … satisfaction. Because sports activity is likely to be misreported and correlated with unobserved determinants of health, we use the …
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514406
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519886
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462244
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067086
Ambulance response time to emergency calls is a key indicator of a health system's efficiency although its impact on … health is not precisely known. This causal relation is identified by exploiting rainfall at the time of the ambulance run as …
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Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823869
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
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