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Single-sex vs. coed education : can schooling type affect over- and underweight health risks?

Kim, Seul-Ki; Kim, Young-Chul - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 10, pp. 919-926

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Social Inequality and Obesity in Czech School Children

Vignerova, J.; Bláha, Pavel; Roth, Z.; Osancova, K. - 2009

This study uses logistic regressions to consider the effect of social factors, physical activity, meal frequency and BMI of parents on children's body mass index (BMI) values. Three thousand three hundred and sixty-two children aged 7-11 years were examined in 38 schools in the Czech Republic....

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School starting age policy and students' risky health behaviors

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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty; Hussain, Muna - 2021

In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary school students, we assess the relationship between SBP and NSLP participation and (relatively)...

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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2021

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator of the average treatment effect. We assess the finite sample performance of our estimator using...

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Does schooling affect health behavior? : evidence from the educational expansion in Western Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen; Salm, Martin - 2009

states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …