Donal O&#x;Neill
Donal O&#x;Neill
Reliable measures of body composition are essential to develop effective policies to tackle obesity. The lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has made it difficult to evaluate alternative measures of obesity. We use lat...
Damiano Fiorillo,Fabio Sabatini
Damiano Fiorillo
This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Stat...
Joshua Berning
Joshua Berning
There are numerous costs resulting from being overweight or obese. A relevant question is how to effectively reduce rates of obesity. I examine the effect of advice from a physician or heath care provider to lose weight on individual weight...
An information theory based framework for the measurement of population health [0.03%]
基于信息理论的测量人群健康框架
Erik T Nesson,Joshua J Robinson
Erik T Nesson
This paper proposes a new framework for the measurement of population health and the ranking of the health of different geographies. Since population health is a latent variable, studies which measure and rank the health of different geogra...
Tae Hyun Kim,Euna Han
Tae Hyun Kim
The current study explores the association between body mass and job quality, a composite measurement of job characteristics, for adults. We use nationally representative data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study for the years 2005,...
The stature of the self-employed and its relation with earnings and satisfaction [0.03%]
自雇人士的地位及其与收入和满意度的关系
Cornelius A Rietveld,Jolanda Hessels,Peter van der Zwan
Cornelius A Rietveld
Taller individuals have on average a higher socio-economic status than shorter individuals. In countries where entrepreneurs have high social status, we may therefore expect that entrepreneurs are taller than wage workers. Using data from t...
The impact of non-economic damages caps on obstetrics: incentives versus practice style [0.03%]
非经济赔偿上限对妇产科的影响：激励措施与实践方式之间的关系
Anca Cotet-Grecu
Anca Cotet-Grecu
This paper uses 1989-2010 county-level data to reexamine the effect of non-economic damages caps on the field of obstetrics. Previous literature found that caps on damages lead to both changes in the number of physicians and changes in trea...
Thomas C Buchmueller,Meliyanni Johar
Thomas C Buchmueller
Rising rates of obesity are a public health concern in every industrialized country. This study investigates the relationship between obesity and health care expenditure in Australia, where the rate of obesity has tripled in the last three ...
Income deprivation and mental well-being: the role of non-cognitive skills [0.03%]
收入剥夺与心理健康：非认知技能的作用
Maite Blázquez Cuesta,Santiago Budría
Maite Blázquez Cuesta
We show that the positive relation between income deprivation and mental health is affected by an individual's non-cognitive skills. Income deprivation is operationalized as the Yitzhaki index, i.e., as a function of the sum of income diffe...
Risk aversion, time preference and health production: theory and empirical evidence from Cambodia [0.03%]
柬埔寨的健康生产函数估计及风险厌恶和时间偏好理论分析
Matthias Rieger
Matthias Rieger
This paper quantifies the relationship between risk aversion and discount rates on the one hand and height and weight on the other. It studies this link in the context of poor households in Cambodia. Evidence is based on an original dataset...