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The Consequences of Measurement Error When Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

O'Neill, Donal - 2012

This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...

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Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error

O'Neill, Donal - 2014

Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries.For men it is possible to …

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Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S : Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2016

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from...

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Indebted and Overweight : The Link between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan - 2012

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …

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Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?

Xiang, Huasheng; Albani, Viviana; Goffe, Louis; Akhter, … - 2022

explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

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Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy

Bruno, Giovanni - 2015

workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity and measures of economic performance. Among … considered in the literature on the effects of obesity. Interestingly enough, we find that BMI does not discriminate young …

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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Courtemanche, Charles - 2014

that demonstrate the potential importance of our correction for future econometric analyses and estimates of obesity rates …

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The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2022

-reported BMI in studies that use it as an outcome, for example, to analyse socioeconomic gradients in obesity. However, our results …

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Inference with Arbitrary Clustering

Colella, Fabrizio - 2019

Analyses of spatial or network data are now very common. Yet statistical inference is challenging since unobserved heterogeneity can be correlated across neighboring observational units. We develop an estimator for the variance-covariance matrix (VCV) of OLS and 2SLS that allows for arbitrary...

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Breaking Ties : Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2019

Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers like test scores, or both. The New York City public high school match illustrates the latter, using...

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