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Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Measuring socioeconomic inequality in obesity : looking beyond the obesity threshold

Bilger, Marcel; Kruger, Eliza J.; Finkelstein, Eric - In: Health economics 26 (2017) 8, pp. 1052-1066

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Inequality of opportunity in bodyweight among middle-aged and older Chinese: a distributional approach

Nie, Peng; Ding, Lanlin; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

(from 82.1% to 95.5% for WC). Decomposition results show that spatial circumstances such as urban/rural residence and …

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Income-based inequality of adolescent obesity in Australia

James, Adrian; Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - In: Economics letters 198 (2021), pp. 1-5

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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom

O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006

covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …

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Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight : Inequality Across Quantiles

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...

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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index

Jolliffe, Dean - 2010

distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …

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Overweight and poor? : on the relationship between income and the body mass index

Jolliffe, Dean - 2010

distribution. There is a strong negative income gradient in BMI at the obesity threshold and some evidence of a positive gradient …, increases in income are correlated with healthier BMI values. -- overweight ; obesity ; body mass index ; unconditional quantile …

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Nineteenth century body mass, height, and weight : inequality across quantiles

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...

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The Distributional Effect of Education on Body Mass

Kim, Young-joo; Daly, Vince - 2021

We investigate the effect of education on mid-life obesity, with particular attention to potential heterogeneity across … childhood and parental BMI are critical determinants of obesity in middle age. We then establish that even when controlling for …

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