We use data from three waves of Add Health to study the short- and long-run effects of high school peers' genetic … predisposition to high BMI - measured by grade-mates' average BMI polygenic scores - on adolescent and adult obesity in the U.S. We … probability of obesity for females by 2.8 percentage points, about half the size of the effect induced by a one standard deviation …

peer health and also in reactivity to peer influence. This paper estimates heterogeneity in the peer effects of obesity … suggest that policies that reduce obesity could simultaneously widen some existing health disparities due to the … programs that seek to leverage social interactions for better health outcomes. …

Increasing trends in obesity have driven policymakers around the US to examine factors associated with lower Body Mass … Index (BMI) and improved health. Our research examines the relationship between an individual's health and their environment …

that follows its own motion, of course driven by agents’ behavior. The topical issue of obesity serves as motivation and …