Social norms, ideal body weight and food attitudes
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Social norms, ideal body weight and food attitudes.
This paper uses French data on ideal body weight and food attitudes to analyse the role of social norms in the individual's weight control problem. A proxy measure of social norms is calculated by averaging individual perceptions of the ideal Body Mass Index (BMI) over all observations within a reference group. Testing for different definitions of the reference group, we find that individual re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1057-9230,1099-1050
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1251