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Has overweight become the new normal? : evidence of a generational shift in body weight norms

Burke, Mary A.; Heiland, Frank; Nadler, Carl - 2009

We test for differences across the two most recent NHANES survey periods (19881994 and 1999 2004) in self-perception of weight status. We find that the probability of self-classifying as overweight is significantly lower on average in the more recent survey, for both men and women, controlling...

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Bounding obesity rates in the presence of self-reporting errors

O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 50 (2016) 3, pp. 857-871

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Health club attendance, expectations and self-control

Garon, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014

Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to a reported measure of self-control problems at the time of contract signing. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear...

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What Causes Obesity? And Why has it Grown so Much? An Alternative View

Tomer, John F. - 2010

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Thinness and Obesity : A Model of Food Consumption, Health Concerns, and Social Pressure

Dragone, Davide - 2015

The increasing concern of the policy maker about eating behavior has focused on the spread of obesity and on the evidence of a consistent number of individuals dieting despite being underweight. As the latter behavior is often attributed to the social pressure to be thin, some governments have...

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Paternalistic Taxation of Unhealthy Food and the Intensive Versus Extensive Margin of Obesity

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2018

This paper shows that if an individual's health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy weight level and if the individual has both self control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on unhealthy food mitigates the individual's...

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Conspicuous leisure, time allocation, and obesity Kuznets curves

Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie; Wendner, Ronald - 2021

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Conspicuous Leisure, Time Allocation, and Obesity Kuznets Curves

Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie; Wendner, Ronald - 2021

related to exercise. We combine the theory of time allocation with the theory of conspicuous leisure in a growth model … USA, as well as the positive correlation between obesity and income per worker in developing countries, and the negative … correlation between obesity and income per worker in industrialized countries. We supplement our theoretical results with …

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index in Barcelona 1986-2016 : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Bartoll-Roca, Xavier; Serral, Gemma; Ariza, Carles - 2021

We used unconditional quantile regression to reveal heterogeneity in the social gradient at different levels of Body Mass Index (BMI) distribution by educational level, employment situation and neighborhood income for 1986 and 2016 in Barcelona. The contribution of these factors to changes in...

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A model of investment timing for developing childhood health capacity

Setren, Elizabeth M. - In: The American economist : journal of Omnicron Delta … 53 (2009) 2, pp. 111-118

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