Causal effect of obesity on the probability of employment in women in Turkey

D Pekkurnaz - Economics & Human Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the causal effect of obesity on the employment probability of
women in Turkey via the instrumental variable approach by using data from the 2018 Turkey …

Obesity and employment: Evidence from Turkey

A Tirgil - Uluslararası Yönetim İktisat ve İşletme Dergisi, 2021 - dergipark.org.tr
Obesity is a devastating health condition that may harm employment. We investigate the
impact of obesity on employment by utilizing five waves of Turkey Health Surveys and …

Socioeconomic factors affecting the probability of obesity: Evidence from a nationwide survey in Turkey

IŞ Selçuk, AM Köktaş, ŞA Toygar - Quality & Quantity, 2023 - Springer
Obesity, with its increasing incidence and prevalence, is a global and acute public health
problem due to its high costs and strong negative relationship with many physical and …

Determinants of obesity in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis from a developing country

D Karaoglan, A Tansel - Available at SSRN 2900125, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a
developing country by implementing Quantile Regression (QR) methodology. The control …

On the effect of obesity on employment in the presence of observed and unobserved confounding

R Radice, L Zanin, G Marra - Statistica Neerlandica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this paper was to estimate the effect of obesity on the employment probability for
Italian men and women accounting for both observed and unobserved confounding. We use …

Using quadratic inference functions to determine the factors associated with obesity: findings from the STEPS Survey in Iran

F Asgari, A Biglarian, B Seifi, A Bakhshi, HH Miri… - Annals of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Purpose The last study that had a representative sample of the Iranian population and
examined the association between sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with obesity used …

The impact of macroeconomic conditions on obesity in Canada

E Latif - Health economics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The paper used longitudinal Canadian data from the National Population Health Survey to
estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions measured by provincial unemployment …

Sociodemographic and smoking associated with obesity in adult women in Iran: results from the National Health Survey

E Bakhshi, MR Eshraghian, K Mohammad… - Journal of public …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background There is no study that had a sample size sufficient to study the association
between sociodemographic and smoking with obesity in Iran. The goal was to investigate …

Türkiye'de obezitenin sosyoekonomik belirleyicileri

E İpek - Uluslararası İktisadi ve İdari İncelemeler Dergisi, 2019 - dergipark.org.tr
Bu çalışmada, Vücut Kitle İndeksi (VKİ) yardımıyla belirlenen bireyin aşırı kilo veya obezete
durumunu etkileyebilecek sosyoekonomik faktörlerin genelleştirilmiş sıralı logit (gologit) …

Determinants of health behaviors and obesity in Turkey

A Tansel, D Karaoğlan - Sosyoekonomi, 2019 - dergipark.org.tr
The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of health behaviors and obesity
with an emphasis on education in Turkey. We use Health Survey of Turkish Statistical …