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This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764642
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773728
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764722
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. To cure possible endogeneity bias in the regression analysis, we use randomized monetary weight loss incentives as instrument for weight change. In contrast to related earlier work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779209
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the present or lower patience will have poorer health outcomes: that is, they will either be underweight (low BMI) or … overweight (high BMI). The pathway from time preferences to BMI is through food. To empirically validate these predictions, we … savings (a proxy for time preferences) to BMI; and a primary survey of 885 adults conducted in West Delhi. Using quantile …
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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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attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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BMI by about 0.21% and the probability of being classified as obese by 0.44 percentage points. Regarding smoking, we find …
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