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88 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13915
Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment
Chiara Pastore, Stefanie Schurer, Agnieszka Tymula, Nicholas Fuller, Ian Caterson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13903
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
published in: Social Science and Medicine, Available online 10 September 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13671
Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI along the Life-Cycle: Evidence from Several US Cohorts
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya, Angie Upegui
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13308
Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence
Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Götte, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13088
Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare
Charles Courtemanche, David E. Frisvold, David Jimenez-Gomez, Mariétou H. Ouayogodé, Michael Price
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12899
Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
Charles Courtemanche, Joshua C. Pinkston, Jay Stewart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12763
Not Only in My Genes: The Effects of Peers' Genotype on Obesity
Giorgio Brunello, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102349
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12677
Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico
Osea Giuntella, Matthias Rieger, Lorenzo Rotunno
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12617
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Workplace Absenteeism of Overweight and Obese Workers
Ethan Grumstrup, Md. Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Olga Shapoval
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12539
How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
Jiafei Hu, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Haishan Yuan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12376
An Analysis of Beverage Size Restrictions
Brian A. Bourquard, Steven Y. Wu
forthcoming in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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. 12296
The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
Olivier Deschenes, Huixia Wang, Si Wang, Peng Zhang
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. 11468
Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata
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. 11336
Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja, Christopher Rauh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10954
'Rational Overeating' in a Feast-or-Famine World: Economic Insecurity and the Obesity Epidemic
Trenton G. Smith, Steven Stillman, Stuart Craig
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