Life cycle development of obesity and its determinants in six European countries [0.03%]
六个国家的肥胖及其决定因素的发展变化规律
Sandra Cavaco,Tor Eriksson,Ali Skalli
Sandra Cavaco
This paper empirically examines the effect of parents' and individuals' own socioeconomic status on overweight and obesity, and investigates how this effect changes over the life cycle. The impact of individuals' health behaviours on their ...
Child care choices, food intake, and children's obesity status in the United States [0.03%]
美国的儿童看护选择、饮食和儿童肥胖状况之间的关系研究
Bidisha Mandal,Lisa M Powell
Bidisha Mandal
This article studies two pathways in which selection into different types of child care settings may affect likelihood of childhood obesity. Frequency of intake of high energy-dense and low energy-dense food items may vary across care setti...
Macronutrients and obesity: revisiting the calories in, calories out framework [0.03%]
宏量营养素与肥胖：“摄入与消耗”的框架亟待重新审视
Daniel Riera-Crichton,Nathan Tefft
Daniel Riera-Crichton
Recent clinical research has studied weight responses to varying diet composition, but the contribution of changes in macronutrient intake and physical activity to rising population weight remains controversial. Research on the economics of...
Marina Antillón,Diane S Lauderdale,John Mullahy
Marina Antillón
Recent research has reported that habitually short sleep duration is a risk factor for declining health, including increased risk of obesity, diabetes and coronary heart disease. In this study we investigate whether macroeconomic conditions...
The effect of physical activity on adult obesity: evidence from the Canadian NPHS panel [0.03%]
加拿大成人肥胖与身体活动关系的经验证据——来自CNPSS面板数据的证据
Sisira Sarma,Gregory S Zaric,M Karen Campbell et al.
Sisira Sarma et al.
Although physical activity has been considered as an important modifiable risk factor for obesity, the empirical evidence on the relationship between physical activity and obesity is mixed. Observational studies in the public health literat...
Adam Oliver,Jonathan Wolff
Adam Oliver
The conventional, or standard, time trade-off (TTO) procedure, which is used to elicit the values that people place on health states that are in turn required to calculate quality adjusted life-years (QALYs), asks respondents to trade off f...
Child health, its dynamic interaction with nutrition and health memory--evidence from Senegal [0.03%]
儿童健康、营养与健康记忆的动态相互作用——来自塞内加尔的证据
Matthias Rieger,Natascha Wagner
Matthias Rieger
Child malnutrition is pervasive in developing countries and anthropometric measures such as weight-for-height and height-for-age have proven reliable indicators of short term malnutrition and stunting. Rather than studying these indicators ...
Darjusch Tafreschi
Darjusch Tafreschi
Existing theories predict the income gradient of individual body weight to change sign from positive to negative in process of economic development. However, there are only few empirical studies which test this hypothesis. This paper adds t...
Trends in physical stature across socioeconomic groups of Chilean boys, 1880-1997 [0.03%]
智利男孩不同社会经济群体的身高变化（1880-1997）
Javier Núñez,Graciela Pérez
Javier Núñez
This paper studies the trends in height-by-age across socioeconomic groups of Chilean boys aged 5-18 born between 1880 and 1997, by performing a meta-analysis of 38 studies reporting height-by-age published since 1898. We estimate the trend...
Francis J Greene,Liang Han,Sean Martin et al.
Francis J Greene et al.
Testosterone has pronounced effects on men's physiological development and smaller, more nuanced, impacts on their economic behavior. In this study of 1199 Australian adult males, we investigate the relationship between the self-employed an...