Giorgio Brunello,Giovanna Labartino
Giorgio Brunello
Southern regions in Italy are characterized by higher overweight rates than Northern and Central regions. This gap is higher for young males than for females. We fully account for the differences in overweight rates with a relatively parsim...
Tiffany L Green
Tiffany L Green
Childhood obesity has become an issue of increasing concern to health researchers and policymakers in the United States. One important chronic health condition linked to obesity is pediatric asthma. Although researchers have speculated that...
The association between adolescent height and student school satisfaction: recent evidence from Catalonia [0.03%]
青春期身高与学生学校满意度之间的关系：来自 Catalonia 的最新证据
Toni Mora
Toni Mora
We examine the relationship between high-school students' height and their self-reported school satisfaction. This relationship is explored on the basis of a survey conducted in 2008 among some 2200 Catalan (Spanish) students. We find a neg...
Intercontinental differences in overweight of adopted Koreans in the United States and Europe [0.03%]
美国和欧洲收养韩国人超重的洲际差异
Stanley Ulijaszek,Daniel Schwekendiek
Stanley Ulijaszek
A greater proportion of the United States (US) population is overweight or obese (with BMI over 25kg/m(2)) relative to all Western European populations, and it might be expected that migrants to either the US or Western Europe would develop...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):345-50. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.09.001 2013
Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: child malnutrition in Guatemala [0.03%]
结合分位数回归和有序回归的见解：危地马拉儿童营养不良问题
Stuart Sweeney,Frank Davenport,Kathryn Grace
Stuart Sweeney
Chronic child undernutrition is a persistent problem in developing countries and has been the focus of hundreds of studies where the primary intent is to improve targeting of public health and economic development policies. In national leve...
Body mass, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century: joining the debate surrounding equality and health [0.03%]
十九世纪的体重、财富和不平等：加入关于平等与健康之争的讨论
Scott Alan Carson
Scott Alan Carson
We explore relationships among BMI variation, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century US. There was an inverse relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. After contro...
Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure among native Amazonians in Bolivia [0.03%]
玻利维亚亚马逊土著人群中的兄弟姐妹构成与成人血压的关系
Wu Zeng,Eduardo A Undurraga,Colleen Nyberg et al.
Wu Zeng et al.
Sibling configuration, including birth order, or the number, age, and sex of siblings is associated with parental resource allocation between children and is thus associated with a person's well-being. Little is known about the association ...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):391-400. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.08.002 2013
Crisis-induced depression, physical activity and dietary intake among young adults: evidence from the 9/11 terrorist attacks [0.03%]
“9·11”恐怖袭击事件对年轻人抑郁、体力活动和饮食的影响
Yang Wang,Muzhe Yang
Yang Wang
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we provide evidence that young adults respond to crisis-induced depression by exercising less and having breakfast less often. Exogenous variation in the crisis-induced d...
The association of adolescent socioeconomic position and adult height: variation across racial/ethnic groups [0.03%]
种族/族裔群体中社会经济地位与成人身高的关系：青少年的社会经济地位与成年人身高的关联在不同种族/族裔群体中的差异
Tracy K Richmond,Courtney E Walls,S V Subramanian
Tracy K Richmond
Numerous studies have demonstrated the association of childhood socioeconomic position and adult height. Many have suggested the use of adult height as a marker of overall childhood well-being. However, few studies have examined the relatio...
Matteo Manfredini,Marco Breschi,Alessio Fornasin et al.
Matteo Manfredini et al.
This study examines the role of height in the process of mate selection in two Italian populations at the turn of the twentieth century, Alghero, in the province of Sassari, and Treppo Carnico, in the province of Udine. Based on a linkage b...