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...
Saved in:
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: | |
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 |