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Heterogeneity in Place Effects on Health: The Case of Time Preferences and Adolescent Obesity / Ashlesha Datar, Nancy Nicosia, Anya Samek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Datar, Ashlesha.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29935.
- NBER working paper series no. w29935
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- We leverage a natural experiment in combination with data on adolescents' time preferences to assess whether there is heterogeneity in place effects on adolescent obesity. We exploit the plausibly exogenous assignment of military servicemembers, and consequently their children, to different installations to identify place effects. Adolescents' time preferences are measured by a validated survey scale. Using the obesity rate in the assigned installation county as a summary measure of its obesity-related environments, we show that exposure to counties with higher obesity rates increases the likelihood of obesity among less patient adolescents but not among their more patient counterparts.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2022.
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