Shiko Maruyama,Sayaka Nakamura
Shiko Maruyama
The body mass index (BMI) of the Japanese is significantly lower than is found in other high-income countries. Moreover, the average BMI of Japanese women is lower than that of Japanese men, and the age-specific BMI of Japanese women has de...
Kitae Sohn
Kitae Sohn
Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007, this paper estimates the value of relative height (relative to the spouse's height) in the marriage market of a developing country. The results indicate that the value of a 1cm reduction in ...
Growth and nutritional status of children from dysfunctional families with alcohol addicted parents in Poland [0.03%]
波兰酒精依赖父母的子女的成长及营养状况研究
Tomasz Hanć,Zbigniew Czapla,Anita Szwed et al.
Tomasz Hanć et al.
The study was aimed at assessment of impact of parents' alcohol addiction on growth and prevalence of underweight and overweight in their children. Two groups of subjects were compared: 80 children of alcohol addicted parents (ChAAP) aged f...
Till Seuring,Yevgeniy Goryakin,Marc Suhrcke
Till Seuring
This study explores the impact of diabetes on employment in Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) (2005), taking into account the possible endogeneity of diabetes via an instrumental variable estimation strategy. We ...
David Candon
David Candon
The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, s...
Daniel Howdon,Andrew M Jones
Daniel Howdon
This paper investigates the relationship between smoking and ill-health, with a focus on the onset of cancer. A discrete latent factor model for smoking and health outcomes, allowing for these to be commonly affected by unobserved factors, ...
Evaluating the impact of a school-based health intervention using a randomized field experiment [0.03%]
利用随机现场实验评估学校健康干预措施的影响
Jane Greve,Eskil Heinesen
Jane Greve
We conduct an econometric evaluation of a health-promoting programme in primary and lower secondary schools in Denmark. The programme includes health-related measurements of the students, communication of knowledge about health, and support...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Economics and human biology. 2015 Jul:18:41-56. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2015.03.005 2015
Intergenerational health consequences of the 1959-1961 Great Famine on children in rural China [0.03%]
1959-1961年中国大饥荒的跨代健康效应：基于农村地区儿童的研究
Qiang Li,Lian An
Qiang Li
Using a difference-in-difference method and data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this paper attempts to quantify the intergenerational health effects on children in rural China of the 1959-1961 Great Famine. By differenti...
Hao Zhang,Teresa Bago d&#x;Uva,Eddy van Doorslaer
Hao Zhang
Around the world, and in spite of their higher life expectancy, women tend to report worse health than men until old age. Explanations for this gender gap in self-perceived health may be different in China than in other countries due to the...
Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, and infant birth weight: A within-family analysis in the United States [0.03%]
我国利用队列研究分析母亲孕前体重指数、孕期增重与婴儿出生体重的关系
Ji Yan
Ji Yan
In the United States, the high prevalence of unhealthy preconception body weight and inappropriate gestational weight gain among pregnant women is an important public health concern. However, the relationship among pre-pregnancy BMI, gestat...