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The Effects of the Graduated Driver Licensing Restrictions on Teenage Obesity
Qiu, Qihua; Sung, Jaesang - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effects of the Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) restrictions on weight status among adolescents aged 14 to 17 in the U.S. Our findings suggest that a night curfew significantly raises adolescents’ probability of being overweight or obese by 1.66 percentage points,...
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Childhood Obesity
Chou, Shin-Yi; Kelly, Inas; Grossman, Michael - 2007
adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National … Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of television fast-food restaurant advertising on children and adolescents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048316
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The Effect of Sleep Duration on Body Weight in Adolescents : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Do, Young Kyung - 2014
th- and 11th-graders in the 2009−2012 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey show that a 1-hour increase in sleep …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148814
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Does more money make you fat? : the effects of quasi-experimental income transfers on adolescent and young adult obesity
Akee, Randall; Simeonova, Emilia; Copeland, William; … - 2010
) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810552
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Social network and weight misperception among adolescents
Ali, Mir M.; Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Renna, Francesco - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 827-842
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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity
Akee, Randall - 2014
) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth. The effects of extra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069383
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Fat and Out in Salerno and Province : Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the province of Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071055
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Fortin, Bernard - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network.We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021524
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Childhood Influences on Youth Obesity
Classen, Timothy J. - 2014
become an obese or overweight youth. We use this model to test whether it is possible to forecast obesity and overweight … among youth. Comparing Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) scores from these forecasts, we find that a model using … childhood covariates does as well in forecasting youth obesity and overweight as a model using the covariate values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752325