Evaluating causal relationships between urban built environment characteristics and obesity: a methodological review of observational studies

Does active commuting improve psychological wellbeing? Longitudinal evidence from eighteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey

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The difference-in-difference method: Assessing the selection bias in the effects of neighborhood environment on health

(2013) Irina B. Grafova et al.   Economics & Human Biology

Brooklyn, New York foodscape 2007–2011: a five-year analysis of stability in food retail environments

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Re-visiting the relationship between neighbourhood environment and BMI: an instrumental variables approach to correcting for residential selection bias

(2013) Cathleen D Zick et al.   International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Financial Incentives to Promote Active Travel

(2012) Adam Martin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Obesity and fast food in urban markets: a new approach using geo-referenced micro data

(2012) Susan Elizabeth Chen et al.   HEALTH ECONOMICS

In search of causality: a systematic review of the relationship between the built environment and physical activity among adults

(2012) Gavin R McCormack et al.   International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

(2012) Adrian E Bauman et al.   LANCET

Issues relating to study design and risk of bias when including non-randomized studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

(2012) Julian PT Higgins et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

A Question Too Complex for Statistical Modeling

(2011) Beverly J. Levine   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Commentary: Sinners, preachers and natural experiments

(2011) M. Petticrew   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence

(2011) Gordon H. Guyatt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

(2011) Mariel M Finucane et al.   LANCET

Propensity scores: From naïve enthusiasm to intuitive understanding

(2011) Elizabeth Williamson et al.   STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

Built environment, physical activity, and obesity: What have we learned from reviewing the literature?

(2011) Ding Ding et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

The Effect of Fast-Food Availability on Obesity: An Analysis by Gender, Race, and Residential Location

(2010) Richard A. Dunn   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Association of Perceived Neighborhood Safety on Body Mass Index

(2010) Jason S. Fish et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates From Longitudinal Data

(2010) Diane M. Gibson   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-random Reflections

(2010) C. B. Barrett et al.   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses

(2010) Andreas Stang   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Environmental Influences on Young Adult Weight Gain: Evidence From a Natural Experiment

(2010) Kandice A. Kapinos et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Good intentions and received wisdom are not good enough: the need for controlled trials in public health

(2010) S. Macintyre   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Effects of urban sprawl on obesity

(2010) Zhenxiang Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

Evidence synthesis, economics and public policy

(2010) Ian Shemilt et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

Methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions: Key challenges and recommendations

(2009) Helen Weatherly et al.   HEALTH POLICY

Comparing IV with structural models: What simple IV can and cannot identify

(2009) James J. Heckman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS

Alternatives to randomisation in the evaluation of public-health interventions: statistical analysis and causal inference

(2009) S. Cousens et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Fast food costs and adolescent body mass index: Evidence from panel data

(2009) Lisa M. Powell   JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS

Environment and physical activity dynamics: The role of residential self-selection

(2009) Janne Boone-Heinonen et al.   PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE

The built environment and obesity: A systematic review of the epidemiologic evidence

(2009) Jing Feng et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

Influences of Physical and Social Neighborhood Environments on Children's Physical Activity and Obesity

(2008) Luisa Franzini et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Empirical-likelihood-based difference-in-differences estimators

(2008) Jing Qin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

(2008) Gordon H Guyatt et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

A critical appraisal of propensity-score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003

(2007) Peter C. Austin   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behavior: A focus on methodologies

(2007) Patricia L. Mokhtarian et al.   TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL