The allometry of metabolism and stature: worker fatigue and height in the Tanzanian labor market [0.03%]
代谢和身高的全息性：坦桑尼亚劳动力市场的工人疲劳和身高
Gregory N Price
Gregory N Price
If the positive wage-height correlation is at least partially biological in origin, one plausible pathway is the effect of stature on energy expenditure in individuals. If metabolism scales proportionately with stature, then relative to sho...
The effect of school district nutrition policies on dietary intake and overweight: a synthetic control approach [0.03%]
学区营养政策对饮食摄入和超重的影响：合成控制法研究
Sebastian Bauhoff
Sebastian Bauhoff
School nutrition policies aim to eliminate ubiquitous unhealthy foods and beverages from schools to improve adolescent dietary behavior and reduce childhood obesity. This paper evaluates the impact of an early nutrition policy, Los Angeles ...
Dual burden households and intra-household nutritional inequality in Indonesia [0.03%]
印尼的双重重担家庭与家庭内部营养不平等状况
Cornelia Roemling,Matin Qaim
Cornelia Roemling
Overweight is an increasing problem in many developing countries, coexisting with underweight and contributing to a dual burden of malnutrition, sometimes in the same households. We analyze the phenomenon of dual burden households in Indone...
Bayesian modeling of the evolution of male height in 18th century Finland from incomplete data [0.03%]
基于不完整数据的十八世纪芬兰男性身高的进化bayesian模型计算
Antti Penttinen,Elena Moltchanova,Ilkka Nummela
Antti Penttinen
Data on army recruits' height are frequently available and can be used to analyze the economics and welfare of the population in different periods of history. However, such data are not a random sample from the whole population at the time ...
In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children [0.03%]
在南非城市地区，16岁青少年比儿童的健康状况更加平等
Paula L Griffiths,William Johnson,Noël Cameron et al.
Paula L Griffiths et al.
Despite the strongly established link between socio-economic status (SES) and health across most stages of the life-course, the evidence for a socio-economic gradient in adolescent health outcomes is less consistent. This paper examines ass...
The effect of fast-food restaurants on childhood obesity: a school level analysis [0.03%]
快餐业对儿童肥胖的影响：基于学校的研究分析
Pedro A Alviola th,Rodolfo M Nayga Jr,Michael R Thomsen et al.
Pedro A Alviola th et al.
We analyze, using an instrumental variable approach, the effect of the number of fast-food restaurants on school level obesity rates in Arkansas. Using distance to the nearest major highway as an instrument, our results suggest that exposur...
Variation in the relationship between BMI and survival by socioeconomic status in Great Britain [0.03%]
英国社会经济地位不同对BMI和生存率关系的影响
Jonas Minet Kinge,Stephen Morris
Jonas Minet Kinge
We investigate the relationship between obesity and survival, and the extent to which this relationship varies by socioeconomic status (SES). The underlying model is based on the "Pathways to health" framework in which SES affects health by...
Intertemporal discounting as a risk factor for high BMI: evidence from Australia, 2008 [0.03%]
基于澳大利亚的证据：贴现率是高BMI的影响因素（2008）
Mark C Dodd
Mark C Dodd
This paper explores the relationship between intertemporal discounting and body weight, using stated preference measures of intertemporal discounting, and the body mass index (BMI) to represent relative body weight. The empirical analysis u...
Obesogenic environmental influences on young adults: evidence from college dormitory assignments [0.03%]
与青年成人肥胖有关的环境因素：来自大学宿舍分配的证据
Kandice A Kapinos,Olga Yakusheva,Daniel Eisenberg
Kandice A Kapinos
This study utilizes a natural experiment-conditionally random dormitory assignments of first-year US college students-to investigate the influence of obesogenic environmental factors in explaining changes in weight and exercise behavior dur...
Body mass index, waist circumference and employment: evidence from older Irish adults [0.03%]
身体质量指数、腰围与就业：来自爱尔兰老年人的证据
Irene Mosca
Irene Mosca
Data from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing are used to examine the relationship between fatness and obesity and employment status among older Irish adults. Employment status is regressed on one of the following measu...