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Pieroni, Luca; Lanari, Donatella; Salmasi, Luca - 2010

In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy. Cross-price elasticities of unhealthy and healthy foods estimated by a demand system provide a consistent framework to evaluate substitution effects, when a close association is...

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Using agriculture to improve child health : promoting orange sweet potatoes reduces diarrhea

Jones, Kelly; De Brauw, Alan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 15-24

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Obesity and social inequality in America

Broady, Kristen E.; Meeks, Aisha G. - In: The review of black political economy 42 (2015) 3, pp. 201-209

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Hope : developing a model of healthy organization among knowledge professionals

Sivapragasam, P.; Raya, R. - In: GITAM journal of management : a quarterly publication … 13 (2015) 3, pp. 154-168

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Health, body weight, and obesity

Lakdawalla, Darius; Reif, Julian - In: The Oxford handbook of economics and human biology, (pp. 152-178). 2016

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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health out-come, we find that … education has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

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