Amichai Kerner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amichai Kerner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amichai |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerner |
| SIGNATURE | KERNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netanya Academic College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Impact of Urban Verticality on Gendered Patterns of Melanoma Incidence Across U.S. States
Melanoma is a major public health concern with significant regional variation across the United States. While prior research links urban form to health outcomes, the role of vertical urban development remains underexplored. This study examines whether regional variation in urban verticality, proxied by skyscraper prevalence, is associated with melanoma incidence across U.S. states and whether this relationship differs by gender. We analyze panel …
Is high-rise development always beneficial to health
Previous academic literature attributes mixed–use development along with an increased number of skyscrapers as a preferred condition with several positive externalities. Objectives: to demonstrate that mixed-use development is not always beneficial to health – proxied by the prevalence of obesity. We investigate the impact of high-rise buildings on the prevalence of obesity in the US during 2011–2020 using a quadratic regression model. This speci…
Minorities diminished return and walkability: The impact of race on the prevalence of obesity in different urban environments
Walkability is closely interlinked with both racial demographics and the urban environment. Drawing upon data on obesity prevalence across U.S. states and racial groups from 2011 to 2020, this study aims to examine the complex relationships between obesity rates, racial identity, temporal trends, and the number of skyscrapers—employed here as a proxy indicator for urban versus rural settings. The findings indicate a U-shaped relationship between …
Explaining the Covid19 mortality growth rate: An empirical analysis of Israeli cities
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an infectious virus, which has generated a global pandemic. Since December 20, 2020, Israel was one of the first countries to vaccinate its population. This study analyzes the weight of four covariates on a daily mortality growth rate from SARS-COV2 virus. These include population size, median age, a socio-economic ranking at a city level, a date variable and a dummy …
The impact of financial sources on obesity and the poverty-obesity paradox
Is a municipal socio-economic ranking more influential than vaccination on daily growth in Covid-19 infection rate
Numerous studies have attempted to identify potential risk-factors associated with COVID-19 infection, including inter alia: age, diet, higher population density, and the quality and availability of health services. The objective of the current study is to analyze the weight of four covariates on a daily infection rate from SARS-COV2 virus. The method used is regression analysis, where each variable is converted to the standard normal distributio…
Does obesity create a relative sense of excess poverty
Background This study investigates the potential relationship between obesity and self-ranking of poverty, as a proxy for self-awareness and happiness. To the best of our knowledge, this issue has not been previously explored based on self-ranking of poverty when income is controlled. Method Ordered Probit Regressions. We propose a new measure for the influence of western social values and norms associated with discrimination against obese women.…
Efficiency of coronavirus testing from a spatial perspective: The Israeli case
Low vs. high income: The impact of high-rise buildings on prevalence of obesity
Do Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews Suffer more than Secular Israeli Jews from Obesity? Gender, Cohort Effect and the Yule–Simpson Paradox
The obesity survival paradox and melanoma-related mortality
Melanoma is an increasingly common skin cancer with approximately 200,000 new cases discovered annually worldwide. This article seeks to estimate the relationships between mortality rate from melanoma, prevalence of obesity and annual new melanoma cases per 100,000 persons in the population. By way of doing so, it uses a quadratic model to examine the possibility of the obesity survival paradox, namely, the counter-intuitive possibility that a hi…
Covid 19 vaccination: Accessibility or literacy? Israel as a case study
Can the Regime Type (Democracy versus Autocracy) Explain the Covid-19 Recovery Rates
Do high-rise buildings influence melanoma? Tall buildings as positive externalities
Do Covid19 infection rates change over time and space? Population density and socio-economic measures as regressors
To lockdown or not against Covid19: Can the power of education provide the answer
What Is the Optimal Family Size for a Minimal Likelihood of Obesity
Are Ultra-Orthodox Jews Healthier than Secular Jews? Gender Differences, Cohort Effect, Lifestyle and Obesity
Is there an endogeneity problem between health and apartment value? Gender differences and the impact of obesity on property self-evaluation
Assortative Marriage for Height–BMI in an Israeli Sample
Numerous studies have demonstrated that in western societies women are perceived as more attractive with weight drop (proxied by the BMI measure, where BMI =WEIGHT (kg)HEIGHT2(meter2), while men are perceived as more attractive with height rise. The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that as BMI rises for a woman, she has to compromise and marry shorter men. The study is based on the 2016 wave of the Israeli longitudinal survey. We…
Can the Regime Type (Democracy versus Autocracy) Explain the Covid-19 Recovery Rates
Is there an endogeneity problem between health and apartment value? Gender differences and the impact of obesity on property self-evaluation
Do Covid19 infection rates change over time and space? Population density and socio-economic measures as regressors
What Is the Optimal Family Size for a Minimal Likelihood of Obesity
Are Ultra-Orthodox Jews Healthier than Secular Jews? Gender Differences, Cohort Effect, Lifestyle and Obesity
Is there an endogeneity problem between health and apartment value? Gender differences and the impact of obesity on property self-evaluation
Assortative Marriage for Height–BMI in an Israeli Sample
Numerous studies have demonstrated that in western societies women are perceived as more attractive with weight drop (proxied by the BMI measure, where BMI =WEIGHT (kg)HEIGHT2(meter2), while men are perceived as more attractive with height rise. The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that as BMI rises for a woman, she has to compromise and marry shorter men. The study is based on the 2016 wave of the Israeli longitudinal survey. We…
Covid 19 vaccination: Accessibility or literacy? Israel as a case study
Can the Regime Type (Democracy versus Autocracy) Explain the Covid-19 Recovery Rates
Do high-rise buildings influence melanoma? Tall buildings as positive externalities
Do Covid19 infection rates change over time and space? Population density and socio-economic measures as regressors
To lockdown or not against Covid19: Can the power of education provide the answer
Do Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews Suffer more than Secular Israeli Jews from Obesity? Gender, Cohort Effect and the Yule–Simpson Paradox
The obesity survival paradox and melanoma-related mortality
Melanoma is an increasingly common skin cancer with approximately 200,000 new cases discovered annually worldwide. This article seeks to estimate the relationships between mortality rate from melanoma, prevalence of obesity and annual new melanoma cases per 100,000 persons in the population. By way of doing so, it uses a quadratic model to examine the possibility of the obesity survival paradox, namely, the counter-intuitive possibility that a hi…
Is a municipal socio-economic ranking more influential than vaccination on daily growth in Covid-19 infection rate
Numerous studies have attempted to identify potential risk-factors associated with COVID-19 infection, including inter alia: age, diet, higher population density, and the quality and availability of health services. The objective of the current study is to analyze the weight of four covariates on a daily infection rate from SARS-COV2 virus. The method used is regression analysis, where each variable is converted to the standard normal distributio…
Does obesity create a relative sense of excess poverty
Background This study investigates the potential relationship between obesity and self-ranking of poverty, as a proxy for self-awareness and happiness. To the best of our knowledge, this issue has not been previously explored based on self-ranking of poverty when income is controlled. Method Ordered Probit Regressions. We propose a new measure for the influence of western social values and norms associated with discrimination against obese women.…
Efficiency of coronavirus testing from a spatial perspective: The Israeli case
Low vs. high income: The impact of high-rise buildings on prevalence of obesity
Is high-rise development always beneficial to health
Previous academic literature attributes mixed–use development along with an increased number of skyscrapers as a preferred condition with several positive externalities. Objectives: to demonstrate that mixed-use development is not always beneficial to health – proxied by the prevalence of obesity. We investigate the impact of high-rise buildings on the prevalence of obesity in the US during 2011–2020 using a quadratic regression model. This speci…
Minorities diminished return and walkability: The impact of race on the prevalence of obesity in different urban environments
Walkability is closely interlinked with both racial demographics and the urban environment. Drawing upon data on obesity prevalence across U.S. states and racial groups from 2011 to 2020, this study aims to examine the complex relationships between obesity rates, racial identity, temporal trends, and the number of skyscrapers—employed here as a proxy indicator for urban versus rural settings. The findings indicate a U-shaped relationship between …
Explaining the Covid19 mortality growth rate: An empirical analysis of Israeli cities
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an infectious virus, which has generated a global pandemic. Since December 20, 2020, Israel was one of the first countries to vaccinate its population. This study analyzes the weight of four covariates on a daily mortality growth rate from SARS-COV2 virus. These include population size, median age, a socio-economic ranking at a city level, a date variable and a dummy …
The impact of financial sources on obesity and the poverty-obesity paradox
The Impact of Urban Verticality on Gendered Patterns of Melanoma Incidence Across U.S. States
Melanoma is a major public health concern with significant regional variation across the United States. While prior research links urban form to health outcomes, the role of vertical urban development remains underexplored. This study examines whether regional variation in urban verticality, proxied by skyscraper prevalence, is associated with melanoma incidence across U.S. states and whether this relationship differs by gender. We analyze panel …
Medicine (16 works) · Demography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Obesity (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works)