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Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on ObesityJonah B. GelbachYale Law School; Yale University - Department of Economics Program in Applied Economics and Policy Jonathan KlickUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School; Erasmus School of Law; PERC - Property and Environment Research Center Thomas StratmannGeorge Mason University - Buchanan Center Political Economy; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) December 15, 2009 Abstract: In recent years, much attention has been directed at the ongoing increase in body weight, and what might be done about it. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the period 1982-1996 to estimate models relating measures of body weight (BMI, a dummy indicating that a person is overweight or obese, and a dummy indicating that a person is obese) to two food price indexes constructed using regional BLS price data as well as the official BLS food price index. The most aggressive use of our results suggests that variation in year-to-year food prices is unlikely to explain much of the increase in body weight over our sample period. This conclusion holds true regardless of the food price measure we consider.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 36 Keywords: BMI, fat, diet, health, wild cluster bootstrap, fat tax JEL Classification: C15, D12, H23, H51, I12, I18, K32 working papers seriesDate posted: April 1, 2007 ; Last revised: December 17, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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