'Mommy, I miss daddy'. The effect of family structure on children's health in Brazil [0.03%]
《妈妈，我 misses 爸爸》——家庭结构对巴西儿童健康的影响
Sara Ayllón,Natalia N Ferreira-Batista
Sara Ayllón
This paper studies the relationship between single motherhood and children's height-for-age z-scores in Brazil. In order to isolate the causal effect between family structure and children's condition, we estimate an econometric model that u...
Decomposing the effect of height on income in China: The role of market and political channels [0.03%]
中国身高收入效应的分解：市场与政治渠道的作用
Eiji Yamamura,Russell Smyth,Yan Zhang
Eiji Yamamura
It is well known that height is positively associated with earnings. Based on individual level data, this paper investigates the channels through which height influences income in China. Our first key finding is that for males (females) a 1...
The Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): Nine years (2002-2010) of annual data available to the public [0.03%]
塔西内亚马逊族人板块研究（TAPS）: 九年的年度数据（2002-2010年）已对公众开放
William R Leonard,Victoria Reyes-García,Susan Tanner et al.
William R Leonard et al.
This brief communication contains a description of the 2002-2010 annual panel collected by the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study team. The study took place among the Tsimane', a native Amazonian society of forager-horticulturalists. The team t...
Changes in weight, length, head circumference, and ponderal index at birth of healthy term newborns in nine cities in China during the period of rapid social development 1985-2005 [0.03%]
中国九城市健康足月新生儿出生体重、身长、头围和匀称度指数的动态变化（1985-2005年）
Ya-qin Zhang,Hui Li
Ya-qin Zhang
The changes in the anthropometric parameters at birth of healthy singleton term newborns in nine cities in China were analyzed by means of the data collected in three large-scale cross-sectional physical growth surveys in 1985, 1995, and 20...
Reporting error in weight and its implications for bias in economic models [0.03%]
体重报告的误差及其对经济模型偏差的影响
John Cawley,Johanna Catherine Maclean,Mette Hammer et al.
John Cawley et al.
Most research on the economic consequences of obesity uses data on self-reported weight, which contains reporting error that has the potential to bias coefficient estimates in economic models. The purpose of this paper is to measure the ext...
Stature in 19th and early 20th century Copenhagen. A comparative study based on skeletal remains [0.03%]
19世纪和20世纪初哥本哈根人的身高——基于骨骼遗骸的对比研究
Marie Louise S Jørkov
Marie Louise S Jørkov
Individual stature depends on multifactorial causes and is often used as a proxy for investigating the biological standard of living. While the majority of European studies on 19th and 20th century populations are based on conscript heights...
The dynamics of health and its determinants among the elderly in developing countries [0.03%]
发展中国家老年人的健康及其决定因素的动力学
Younoh Kim
Younoh Kim
This paper examines the persistence of bad health among the elderly, and attempts to identify its determinants. We are particularly interested in the role of recent past bad health. Using a panel data set from Indonesia Family Life Survey (...
Douglas Almond,Christine Pal Chee,Maria Micaela Sviatschi et al.
Douglas Almond et al.
The number eight is considered lucky in Chinese culture, e.g. the Beijing Olympics began at 8:08 pm on 8/8/2008. Given the potential for discretion in selecting particular dates of labor induction or scheduled Cesarean section (C-section), ...
Wencke Gwozdz,Alfonso Sousa-Poza,Lucia A Reisch et al.
Wencke Gwozdz et al.
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participati...
Adjusting body mass for measurement error with invalid validation data [0.03%]
利用无效验证数据调整身体质量以修正测量误差
Charles Courtemanche,Joshua C Pinkston,Jay Stewart
Charles Courtemanche
We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not measure respondents. The standard correction in prior research regresses actual measures on reported values using an externa...