Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2011
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary … that intransitive links within a network (i.e., a friend of one of my friends is not my friend) help identify peer effects … BMI level. Results show that there are positive significant peer effects in fast food consumption among adolescents …