Arbeitspapier
Weight gain in adolescents and their peers
Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally representative dataset and document correlations in weight gain among peers. We find strong correlations between own body mass index (BMI) and peers' BMI's. Though the correlations are especially strong in the upper ends of the BMI distribution, the relationship is smooth and holds over almost the entire range of adolescent BMI. Furthermore, the results are robust to the inclusion of school fixed effects and basic controls for other confounding factors such as race, sex, and age. Some recent research in this area asks whether or not adolescent weight gain is caused by peers. We discuss the econometric difficulties in plausibly estimating such effects. Our results do not rule out the existence of these types of social network effects.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3610
- Klassifikation
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Health: General
- Thema
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Obesity
peer effects
adolescent health
Gesundheitsrisiko
Soziale Beziehungen
Familiensoziologie
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Halliday, Timothy J.
Kwak, Sally
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008072959
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Halliday, Timothy J.
- Kwak, Sally
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2008
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