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18 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13903
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13421
Inequality of Opportunity in Bodyweight among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese: A Distributional Approach
Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding, Andrew M. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12332
The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Badi H. Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Haci M. Karatas
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 17, 205-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11770
Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI
Caitlin McKennie, Laura M. Argys, Andrew I. Friedson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11702
Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?
Joan Costa-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412
Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10620
Health and Body Mass Index: No Simple Relationship
Olaf Hübler
revised version published as 'Health and weight - gender-specific linkages under heterogeneity, interdependence and resilience factors' in: Economic and Human Biology, 2017, 26, 96-111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9050
Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
Giovanni S. F. Bruno, Floro Ernesto Caroleo, Orietta Dessy
published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8283
A New Formulation for Latent Class Models
Sarah Brown, William H. Greene, Mark N. Harris
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8009
Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6408
Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
Jon E. Anderson, Manjari Govada, Tricia K. Steffen, Chris P. Thorne, Vasileia Varvarigou, Stefanos N. Kales, Stephen V. Burks
revised version published as 'Obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers,' in: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2012, 49, 378-384
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5366
Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Dean Jolliffe
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4010
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Bert van Landeghem
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2717
Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence
Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F441-F459
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1814
The Obesity Epidemic in Europe
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1704
Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
Beatrice d'Hombres, Giorgio Brunello
published as 'Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5 (1), 1-19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1597
Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61
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