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The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid rise has occurred. This paper employs micro-level data from the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry; Dave, Dhaval M.; Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Grossman, Michael; Liu, Jin-Tan; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We estimate the impacts of the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI) in Taiwan in March 1995 on the health of infants. Prior to NHI, government workers (the control group) possessed health insurance policies with comprehensive coverage for births and infant medical care services....

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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Grossman, Michael; Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last several decades, numerous medical studies have compared the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Most evidence indicates that CABG - the more invasive procedure - leads...

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Individual Behaviors and Substance Use: The Role of Price

Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

I discuss economic approaches to the demand for harmfully addictive substances and estimate time-series demand functions for the period from 1975 through 2003. My estimates suggest that changes in price can explain a good deal of the observed changes in cigarette smoking, binge alcohol drinking,...

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An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Grossman, Michael; Saffer, Henry; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Since the late 1970s, the number of obese adults in the United States has grown by over 50 percent. This paper examines the factors that may be responsible for this rapidly increasing prevalence rate. To study the determinants of adult obesity and related outcomes, we employ micro-level data...

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

Kaestner, Robert; Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and reading, and grade attainment. Data for the study came from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...

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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011 (Evaluation of active labor market programs : a summary of recent results for the...

Heyer, Gerd; Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

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Wage subsidies for needy job-seekers and their effect on individual labour market outcomes after the German reforms

Bernhard, Sarah; Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"In Germany, since 2005 needy job-seekers without access to earnings-related and insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I …' are entitled to means-tested and tax-funded 'unemployment benefit II'. Several active labour market programmes support the … shares not unemployed and the share no longer receiving 'unemployment benefit II' are slightly smaller." (Author's abstract …

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