Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 38

August 2020

 

Evaluating Saudi Arabia’s 50% carbonated drink excise tax: Changes in prices and volume sales

    Reem Alsukait, Parke Wilde, Sara N. Bleich, Gitanjali Singh, Sara C. Folta

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The health and financial impacts of a sugary drink tax across different income groups in Canada—UP

    Kai-Erh Kao, Amanda C. Jones, Arto Ohinmaa, Mike Paulden

Open Access

 

How children's education affects caregiving: Evidence from parent’s last years of life

    Nan Jiang, Neeraj Kaushal

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Distributional Effects of Recent Health Insurance Expansions on Weight-Related Outcomes

    Melissa McInerney, Mark K. Meiselbach

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Parenthood and smoking

    Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm

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Who drinks soda pop? Economic status and adult consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages

    Jay L. Zagorsky, Patricia K. Smith

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Obesity and bankruptcy: Evidence from US counties

    Masanori Kuroki

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Height, marriage, and partner characteristics for women in low- and middle-income countries

    Jason E. Murasko

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Filling the weight gap: Estimating body weight and BMI using height, chest and upper arm circumference of Swiss conscripts in the first half of the 20th century

    Fabienne P Trüb, Jonathan CK Wells, Frank J Rühli, Kaspar Staub, Joël Floris

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Rainfall and child weight in Uganda

    George Omiat, Gerald Shively

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Beauty perks: Physical appearance, earnings, and fringe benefits

    Maryam Dilmaghani

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Is the public sweet on sugary beverages? Social desirability bias and sweetened beverage taxes

    Melissa A. Knox, Vanessa M. Oddo, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Jessica Jones-Smith

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Regional inequalities in adiposity in England: distributional analysis of the contribution of individual-level characteristics and the small area obesogenic environment

    Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones

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Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence

    Brian Marein

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Effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake

    Thomas Schober

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The effect of tobacco policies on youth physical activity

    Rebecca Sen Choudhury, Karen Smith Conway

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Sweet are the fruit of adversity? The impact of fathers’ death on child non-cognitive outcomes in Ethiopia

    Rozana Himaz

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BMI mobility and obesity transitions among children in Ireland

    David Madden

Open Access

 

The effect of retirement on biomedical and behavioral risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease

    Sara Pedron, Werner Maier, Annette Peters, Birgit Linkohr, ... Lars Schwettmann

Open Access

 

Parents labor supply and childhood obesity: Evidence from Scotland

    Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

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The impact of BMI on mental health: Further evidence from genetic markers

    Vikesh Amin, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

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The interaction between personality and health policy: Empirical evidence from the UK smoking bans

    Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan

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An analysis of the stock market reaction to the announcements of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy

    Cherry Law, Laura Cornelsen, Jean Adams, Tarra Penney, ... Richard Smith

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