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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286503
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
, sibling size and maternal height, the coefficient associated with being an Indian girl is no longer statistically significant. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260039
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An empirical note on imitative obesity and a puzzling result
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2006, I test recent theoretical predictions on social comparisons influencing individual Body Mass Index (BMI). I find that in particular the average BMI of individuals in the same county-age-gender-cell as the respective...
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Imitative obesity and relative utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - 2009
German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter …. -- Body mass index BMI ; comparisons ; imitation ; happiness ; peer effects ; dieting ; mental health ; well-being ; obesity …
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
Blanchflower, David G. - 2014
German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750955
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Obesity, Unhappiness, and the Challenge of Affluence : Theory and Evidence
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a pessimistic view, we show that psychological distress …
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Life Events and Subjective Well-Being : The Case of Having Children
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2014
The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053231
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Life events and subjective well-being : the case of having children
Pedersen, Peder J.; Schmidt, Torben Dall - 2014
The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358765
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457380