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Television, Children's Obesity Risk and Mental Well-being : Lessons from the UK Digital Switchover

Nieto Castro, Adrian; Suhrcke, Marc - 2021

We examine the effect of screen-based activities on obesity and mental well-being for children, exploiting exogenous … health total difficulties score by 2.13% among children. Underlying the net effects appears to be a decrease in physical … activity among children, while neither eating habits nor personal views about self-appearance seem to play a signicant role …

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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories : Socioeconomic Status and Diets

Carson, Scott A. - 2014

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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link

Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015

Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is...

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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link

Reichert, Arndt R.; Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015

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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...

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Healthy vs. unhealthy food : a strategic choice for firms and consumers

Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez-Ibeas, Roberto - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-8

In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the strategic choice made by firms regarding the type of food they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health costs when the food they consume has unhealthy...

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Food prices and overweight patterns in Italy

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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Tobacco Taxes and Smoking Bans Impact Differently on Obesity and Eating Habits

Dragone, Davide - 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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Social Distortion in Weight Perception : A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic

Barbieri, Paolo - 2015

This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with a high prevalence of obesity. The theoretical model show that when obesity...

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