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A New Formulation for Latent Class Models
Brown, Sarah; Greene, William H.; Harris, Mark N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Latent class, or finite mixture, modelling has proved a very popular, and relatively easy, way of introducing much-needed heterogeneity into empirical models right across the social sciences. The technique involves (probabilistically) splitting the population into a finite number of (relatively...
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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
which there can be obesity spirals after only small drops in the price of food. …
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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …
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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
obesity rates. …
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Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
Anderson, Jon; Govada, Manjari; Steffen, Tricia K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
regression indicated that the risk ratio (RR) for all crashes was significantly higher for drivers in the obesity Class II and …. Similarly, the multivariate Cox Proportional Hazard model results showed that crash risk was significantly higher for obesity … class II (BMI 35 to <40; relative risk (RR) = 1.47, P = 0.02) with weaker evidence of increased crash risk for obesity class …
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The Obesity Epidemic in Europe
Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity … of obesity among adults and analyses the socioeconomic factors contributing to the problem. The associated costs of … obesity are also investigated, both in terms of health status, health care spending and absenteeism. …
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