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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529406
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2011
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these effects partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186078
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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276697
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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265952
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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - In: Journal of health economics 42 (2015), pp. 125-138
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Childhood Obesity
Chou, Shin-Yi; Kelly, Inas; Grossman, Michael - 2007
adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National … Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of television fast-food restaurant advertising on children and adolescents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048316
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Big food : critical perspectives on the global growth of the food and beverage industry
Williams, Simon N. (ed.); Nestle, Marion (ed.) - 2017 - First issued in paperback
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787500
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Slow traffic, fast food : the effects of time lost on food store choice
Bencsik, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in highway traffic data in Los Angeles. We find that on days...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249135
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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions
Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22
This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013326431
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Fast-food restaurant advertising on television and its influence on youth body composition
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2012
measured by percentage body fat (PBF) and to assess the sensitivity of these effects to using conventional measures of youth … from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …
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