Costa-i-Font, Joan and Gil, Joan (2004) Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals’ weight. Working Papers, 2004-19. Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract
Obesity and overweight are central issues in the public health debate in most developed countries. In this debate, some of the socio-economic determinants of obesity and overweight are still relatively unexplored. This paper presents an empirical examination of the possible influence of social interactions on contemporaneous obesity and (over)underweight. We apply a joint estimation model for obesity and self-image to a sample for Spain taken from the European Union household panel for 1998. Our results suggest that obesity might be in part a social phenomenon connected to individuals’ social life
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://ideas.repec.org/p/fda/fdaddt/2004-19.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 The Authors |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Obesity, self-image and employment |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Sets: | Departments > European Institute Departments > Social Policy Research centres and groups > LSE Health |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: | 2004-19 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/37022/ |
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