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Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of fast-food restaurant …
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In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or … the youth skin-fold equations, the larger calorie coefficients in the skin-fold equation for 10-16 year old youths with …
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We use data from The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to estimate effects of adolescent girls' overweight on their propensity to engage in risky sexual behavior. We estimate single equation, two-stage, and sibling fixed-effects models and find that overweight or obese teenage...
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and occupation choice, particularly for late-teen BMI and adult wages. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth …
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Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of fast-food restaurant …
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One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
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