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Title: Effects of Household Composition and Income Security on Body Weight in Working-age Men
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Barnes, Michael G. Smith, Trenton G. Yoder, Jonathan K. |
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Effects of Household Composition and Income Security on Body Weight in Working-age Men Obesity 21,9 (September 2013): E483-E489. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.20302/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Cohabitation; Household Composition; Income; Labor Force Participation; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a sample of 2,541 working-age men from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979), the effect of cohabitation on weight gain over a 6-year period was estimated. The potential confound caused by the joint determination of economic insecurity and cohabitation status with instrumental variables that exploit variation in local and state-level macroeconomic conditions and the presence of children in the home was addressed. |
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Barnes, Michael G., Trenton G. Smith and Jonathan K. Yoder. "Effects of Household Composition and Income Security on Body Weight in Working-age Men." Obesity 21,9 (September 2013): E483-E489.
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