Search Results - subject:"overweight and obesity"

Obesity and overweight among the poor and marginalized in rural Mexico : impact analysis of the effect of school breakfasts on children aged five to eleven

Saucedo Delgado, Odra Angélica; Sota Riva, Marcela de la; … - In: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo 12 (2023) 1, pp. 192-216

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Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: longitudinal evidence from Germany

Li, Jianghong; Kaiser, Till; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias; … - In: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73 (2019) 8, pp. 723-729

fathers’ and mothers’ work hours on childhood overweight and obesity. [Objectives:] To examine the impact of maternal and …–6. Overweight and obesity was defined using the body mass index percentiles based on the Cole LMS-Method. Random effects model was … non-employment, when mothers worked 35 or more hours per week, the risk for child overweight and obesity increased among …

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Memory utility, food consumption and obesity

Zeng, Qiyan; Yu, Xiaohua; Te, Bao - In: China economic review : an international journal 62 (2020), pp. 1-12

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Does cigarette smoking affect body weight? causal estimates from the clean indoor air law discontinuity

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the causal effects of smoking behavior on body weight in Italy. In 2005, the Italian government introduced a smoking ban in all indoor public places. We use a regression discontinuity design, which exploits this exogenous variation across cohorts to achieve identification in...

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Smoking habit changes and body weight: causal estimates from the British Household Panel Survey

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper evaluates the causal relationship between smoking and body weight through two waves (2004-2006) of the British Household Panel Survey. We model the effect of changes in smoking habits, such as quitting or reducing, and account for the heterogeneous responses of individuals located at...

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Multilevel Mixture with Known Mixing Proportions: Applications to School and Individual Level Overweight and Obesity Data from Birmingham, England

Hussain, Shakir; Shukur, Ghazi - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2012

demonstrating the advantage of the MLMk compared with the MLM approach. We show the benefit of our method using overweight and … obesity from Body Mass Index (BMI) measurements for students in year 6. We apply these methods on multi-level BMI data to …

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An empirical analysis on the determinants of overweight and obesity in China

Gao, Ping; Shen, Junyi - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 20, pp. 1923-1936

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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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Body weight and socio-economic determinants: Quantile estimations from the British Household Panel Survey

Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - 2010

This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in UK by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that quantile regression estimates are quite different...

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Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Gradient over Age:New Evidence from China.

Ma, Bing - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2010

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in …

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