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Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight … the correlation between satisfaction and own BMI is initially positive, but turns negative after some threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600991
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Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social … interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight … the correlation between satisfaction and own BMI is initially positive, but turns negative after some threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784838
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2014
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464366
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601017
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098747
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021617
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The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549991
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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008
daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600743
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600905
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600992