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Gender peer effects heterogeneity in obesity
Dieye, Rokhaya; Fortin, Bernard - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584555
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Obesity, school obesity prevalence, and adolescent childbearing among U.S. young women
Kane, Jennifer B.; Frisco, Michelle L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 88 (2013) C, pp. 108-115
In the United States, adolescent obesity reduces young women's odds of forming romantic and sexual partnerships but … relationship between adolescent obesity and adolescent childbearing. Our study has two aims. We draw from prior research to develop … and test competing hypotheses about the association between adolescent obesity and young women's risk of an adolescent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665737
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Association of a genetic risk score with BMI along the life-cycle: evidence from several US cohorts
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia; Upegui, Angie - 2020
We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the the effect of individuals' genetic predisposition to higher BMI - measured by BMI polygenic scores - changes over the life-cycle for several cohorts. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288962
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Sorting and statistical discrimination in schools
Nathan, Anil - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 43 (2015) 2, pp. 271-287
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326159
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The Effects of Racial and Extracurricular Friendship Diversity on Achievement
Nathan, Anil - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2008
This paper finds the effect of having friends of a similar race and who are involved in similar activities. It explores data which allows a peer group to be defined openly through self nominations. Using a strategy that corrects for the endogeneity of peer effects by instrumenting using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729457
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Sorting and Statistical Discrimination in Schools: An Analysis Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Nathan, Anil - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2009
The rigorous economic analysis of peer group formation is a burgeoning subject. Much has been written about how peers in uence an individual's behavior, and these effects are quite prevalent. However, less has been written on how exactly these peer groups begin and the resulting consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045017
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Social integration in friendship networks: The synergy of network structure and peer influence in relation to cigarette smoking among high risk adolescents
Lakon, Cynthia M.; Valente, Thomas W. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 9, pp. 1407-1417
Using data from a study of high risk adolescents in Southern California, U.S.A. (N=851), this study examined synergy …
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“But Then I Learned…”: Weight loss surgery patients negotiate surgery discourses
Drew, Patricia - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 8, pp. 1230-1237
perceived expert insider status and interpretive practice in managing obesity surgery stigma. …This research explores commonplace discursive depictions of obesity surgery and individual patients’ reactions to these … periodicals frequently stigmatized patients as obesity surgery is cast as (1) medically risky, (2) extravagant and (3) an overly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042316
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2010
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636399
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Not only in my genes : the effects of peers' genotype on obesity
Brunello, Giorgio; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2019
predisposition to high BMI - measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores - on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We … probability of obesity for females by 2.8 percentage points, about half the size of the effect induced by a one standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136975