Age, socioeconomic status and obesity growth
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Age, socioeconomic status and obesity growth.
We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine how body weight changes with age for a cohort moving through early adulthood, to investigate how the age-obesity gradient differs with socioeconomic status (SES) and to study channels for these SES disparities. Our results show first that weight increases with age and is inversely related to SES during childhood....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Health Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.01.004