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101 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12763
Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity
Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12677
Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico
Osea Giuntella, Matthias Rieger, Lorenzo Rotunno
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 122, 103277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12617
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers
Ethan Grumstrup, Md. Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Olga Shapoval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12539
How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
Jiafei Hu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Haishan Yuan
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 672-687
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12376
An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions
Brian A. Bourquard, Steven Y. Wu
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 102 (1), 169-185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12332
The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Haci M. Karatas
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 17, 205-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12296
The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
Olivier Deschenes, Huixia Wang, Si Wang, Peng Zhang
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102461
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11770
Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI
Caitlin McKennie, Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11702
Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?
Joan Costa-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11468
Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata
published in: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018, 55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412
Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10954
'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic
Trenton G. Smith, Steven Stillman, Stuart Craig
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (3), 634 - 655
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775
Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10739
Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis, Xilin Zhou
published as 'Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2019, 13 (4), 553 - 584
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10650
Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin Lee, Wilfredo Lim
published in:: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 65, 1 - 14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10649
Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health
Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 660 - 691
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620
Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship
Olaf Hübler
revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10491
Determinants of Obesity in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis from a Developing Country
Deniz Karaoğlan, Aysit Tansel
published in: Bogazici University Journal, 2019, 32 (2), 174-184.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9907
The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
Petri Böckerman, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen, Olli Raitakari
published in: Health Economics, 2019, 28 (1), 65-77
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