Are some neighborhoods bad for your waistline? A test of neighborhood exposure effects on BMI.
BMI
Neighborhood effects
Obesity
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN: 1879-1646
Titre abrégé: J Health Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8410622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2019
01 2019
Historique:
received:
20
06
2018
revised:
20
10
2018
accepted:
26
10
2018
pubmed:
20
11
2018
medline:
2
4
2020
entrez:
20
11
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
I study the causal impact of neighborhoods on body mass index (BMI). Through exploiting variation in the number of years individuals have lived in their neighborhood, using a data set from California, I examine if there exist causal effects of exposure to neighborhoods with high potential effects on one's BMI. The identifying assumption is that there are no unobserved individual level characteristics correlated with both BMI and moving, after controlling for observables. I find evidence that suggests that neighborhoods do not have a causal impact on BMI.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30453225
pii: S0167-6296(18)30552-6
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.10.007
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
52-63Informations de copyright
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