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Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes
Cawley, John - 2000
Several studies have found that, all else equal, heavier women earn less. Previous research has been unable to determine whether high weight is the cause of low wages, the result of low wages, or whether unobserved factors cause both higher weight and lower wages. Applying the method of...
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Height, Weight, and Body Mass of the British Population Since 1820
Floud, Roderick - 1998
The average height of a population has become a familiar measure of that population's nutritional status. This paper extends the use of anthropometric data in the study of history by exploring published evidence on the weight, as well as the height, of British populations in the nineteenth and...
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Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?
Currie, Janet - 1991
A primary goal of transfer programs to the non-aged, non-disabled poor in the United States is to improve the well-being of children in poor families. Thus it is surprising that most of the considerable research which has been devoted to the study of transfer programs focuses on the incentive...
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The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Coate, Douglas - 1983
In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular … emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …
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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity : An Application of Lewbel’s Instrumental Variables Method
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day--rather than average daily time use over an extended period--is used as...
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The Returns to Early-life Interventions for Very Low Birth Weight Children
Chyn, Eric - 2019
We use comprehensive administrative data from Rhode Island to measure the impact of early-life interventions for low birth weight newborns on later-life outcomes. We use a regression discontinuity design based on the 1,500-gram threshold for Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) status. We show that...
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The Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance : Overweight Adolescents and Children in Rural China
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2019
Obesity is an important global health problem. Although obesity is not directly related to access to health care or … to identify the causal role of schooling in affecting obesity among children and adolescents, using new estimation …
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Weight gains from trade in foods : Evidence from Mexico
Giuntella, Osea - 2018
In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican … imports from the U.S. explains about ten percent of the rise in obesity prevalence among Mexican women between 1988 and 2012 …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price …
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Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to compare changes in body mass index (BMI), obesity, and consumer well-being in …
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Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2018
associations between SNAP and food insecurity, obesity, and the Healthy Eating Index. These results serve as a cautionary tale …
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