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Fat and Out in Salerno and Province : Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana - 2014

Salerno in Southern Italy. A simple human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework within which to …

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Fat and Out in Salerno and its Province : Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Niall - 2014

of Salerno and its province in Southern Italy. A human capital investment model is employed and this provides a framework …

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Fat and out in Salerno and its province : adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Souther Italy

Barone, Adriana; O'Higgins, Shane Niall - In: Economics and human biology 8 (2010) 1, pp. 44-57

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Gender differences in weight status and early school leaving in Italy

Barone, Adriana; Barra, Cristian - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 14 (2022) 3, pp. 644-666

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Body Weight of Italians : The Weight of Education

Atella, Vincenzo - 2014

In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as theoretical reference an energy balance model. Our data consist of individual level data from eight waves of the Italian survey on life-styles. We use Quantile Regression (QR)...

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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...

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Child and adolescent obesity in Ireland : a longitudinal perspective

Madden, David - 2016

This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal education...

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Childhood Influences on Youth Obesity

Classen, Timothy J. - 2014

become an obese or overweight youth. We use this model to test whether it is possible to forecast obesity and overweight … among youth. Comparing Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) scores from these forecasts, we find that a model using … childhood covariates does as well in forecasting youth obesity and overweight as a model using the covariate values …

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BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland

Madden, David - 2019

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of the longitudinal Growing Up in Ireland dataset. Particular attention is paid to transitions across the key BMI thresholds of overweight and obesity. Analysis is carried out by...

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Universal Cash Transfers Reduce Childhood Obesity Rates

Watson, Brett - 2019

We evaluate the impact of universal income on childhood obesity. While the goals of implementing universal income are many, its influence on childhood obesity is of particular interest given the growing obesity epidemic and its future threat to global public health. We use evidence from Alaska's...

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