Financial hardship and obesity

•In this paper we investigate the effect of financial hardship on body weight.•A strong correlation is found using least squares and propensity score methods.•This correlation appears to be driven by unobservables.•Instrumental Variables results indicate little evidence of a causal relationship. The...

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Volume:	15
Main Author:	Averett, Susan L Smith, Julie K
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.12.2014 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Elsevier BV
published in:	Economics and human biology Vol. 15; pp. 201 - 212
ORCID:	0000-0002-6499-3334
Data of publication:	December 2014
ISSN:	1570-677X 1873-6130
EISSN:	1873-6130
Discipline:	Anatomy & Physiology Economics
Subjects:	Obesity Body mass index Financial hardship Overweight Economics Business & Economics Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology Body Mass Index Income - statistics & numerical data Models, Econometric Body Weight Cross-Sectional Studies Humans Male Socioeconomic Factors Young Adult Overweight - epidemiology Obesity - epidemiology Adolescent Adult Female Child Longitudinal Studies Index Medicus Obesity Body mass index Financial hardship I10, I12 Overweight PROPENSITY SCORE BIAS VARIABLES HEALTH
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2014 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) MEDLINE - Academic OpenAIRE Database information Databases - DBIS