Obesity and health-related decisions : an empirical model of the determinants of weight status

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Borradores de Economía; No. 846

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2014-09-17

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2014-09-17

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Morales-Zurita, Leonardo Fabio
Gordon-Larsen, Penny
Guilkey, David

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Using Add Health, a very comprehensive longitudinal data set of teenagers and young adults in the United States, we estimate a structural dynamic model of the determinants of obesity. In addition to including many of the well-recognized endogenous factors

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I12 - Health Behavior
I14 - Health and Inequality
R52 - Land Use and Other Regulations

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Health production , Public health , Urban analysis

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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/6133
 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/6133
 https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/846.html
 https://doi.org/10.32468/be.846

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