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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; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
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The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index. If control variables are added, estimates are...
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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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Parental Work Hours in Childhood Obesity : Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
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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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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro - 2012
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107835
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Health Behavior and Accident Risk : Obesity is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes Among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
Anderson, Jon - 2014
regression indicated that the risk ratio (RR) for all crashes was significantly higher for drivers in the obesity Class II and …. Similarly, the multivariate Cox Proportional Hazard model results showed that crash risk was significantly higher for obesity … class II (BMI 35 to <40; relative risk (RR) = 1.47, P = 0.02) with weaker evidence of increased crash risk for obesity class …
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Fat chance! : obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
weight women. Obese women who found a job also had significantly lower wages than healthy weight women. -- obesity …
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
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