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The relationship of body weight and skepticism towards advertising

Brauneis, Sabrina - 2016

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Soda taxes, consumption, and health outcomes for high school students

Flynn, James - In: Economics letters 234 (2024), pp. 1-5

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Limited self-control, obesity and the loss of happiness

Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Obesity has become a major health issue. Research in economics has provided important insights as to how technological … progress reduced the relative price of food and contributed to the increase in obesity. However, the increased availability of …'s well-being. It is found that obesity decreases the well-being of individuals who report limited self-control, but not …

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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

Marcus, Jan - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or...

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Changes in immigrants' body mass index with their duration of residence in Germany

Sander, Monika - 2008

This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany. The data are drawn from three waves (2002, 2004, and 2006) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results indicate a clear increase of the BMI with additional...

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Spatial correlates of U.S. heights and BMIs, 2002

Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - 2004

Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...

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When outcome heterogeneously matters for selection : a generalized selection correction estimator

Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2014

financial incentives for reducing obesity. Estimation results indicate that the choice of the estimation procedure clearly …

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Tobacco taxes and smoking bans impact differently on obesity and eating habits

Dragone, Davide; Manaresi, Francesco; Savorelli, Luca - 2013

Policy interventions aimed at affecting a specific behavior may also indirectly affect individual choices in other domains. In this paper we study the direct effect of tobacco excise taxes and smoking bans on smoking behavior, and the indirect effect on eating behavior and body weight. Using...

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Obesity and smoking : can we catch two birds with one tax?

Dragone, Davide; Manaresi, Francesco; Savorelli, Luca - 2013

policies may also affect the obesity prevalence and fat taxes could influence smoking behavior. We address this issue from a … effective than tobacco taxes at simultaneously fighting obesity and smoking. …

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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years

Cawley, John H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the … daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …

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