Kinge, Jonas Minet; Morris, Stephan - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2015
In the following paper we estimate the impact of obesity in childhood on health and health service use in England using … England (1998-2012), which has measures of self-assessed health, primary care use, prescribed medication use, and nurse …-measured height and weight. We use instruments for child obesity using genetic variation in weight. We detect a few potential issues …