Supermarket Access and Childhood Bodyweight: Evidence from Store Openings and Closings
نویسندگان
چکیده
The food environment is increasingly hypothesized to cause obesity. This study investigates the impacts of access to supermarkets, the primary source of healthy foods, on the bodyweight outcomes of children. The empirical analysis uses a statewide individual-level panel data set covering health screenings of public schoolchildren along with annual georeferenced business lists and utilizes the plausibly exogenous variations of supermarket openings and closings. There is little overall impact in either case, yet supermarket openings are found to moderately reduce the bodyweight of low-income children. These results suggest that healthy food access could help reduce childhood obesity rates among certain population groups. (JEL Q18 I18)
منابع مشابه
Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings.
Regulatory oversight of toxic emissions from industrial plants and understanding about these emissions' impacts are in their infancy. Applying a research design based on the openings and closings of 1,600 industrial plants to rich data on housing markets and infant health, we find that: toxic air emissions affect air quality only within 1 mile of the plant; plant openings lead to 11 percent dec...
متن کاملAn Efficient Class of Alternating Sequential Filters in Morphology
phological openings and closings. The class of alternating filters (AFs), composed of morphological openings and In this note, an efficient class of alternating sequential filters (ASFs) in mathematical morphology is presented to reduce the closings, has been demonstrated to be useful in image computational complexity in the conventional ASFs about a analysis applications. Sternberg [3] introdu...
متن کاملA Study of Openings and Closings with Reconstruction Criteria
In this paper, a class of extended lower and upper levelings is investigated. Here, some conditions are imposed to the criteria for building extended lower and upper levelings in order to generate openings and closings with reconstruction criteria. The idea of building these new openings and closings comes from the notions of morphological filters by reconstruction and levelings. The main goal ...
متن کاملOpenings and closings with reconstruction criteria: a study of a class of lower and upper levelings
A study of a class of openings and closings is investigated using reconstruction criteria. The main goal in studying these transformations consists of eliminating some inconveniences of the morphological opening (closing) and the opening (closing) by reconstruction. The idea in building these new openings and closings comes from the notions of filters by reconstruction and levelings. In particu...
متن کاملThe economics of food choice behavior: why poverty and obesity are linked.
Obesity in the United States does not affect all segments of the population equally. It is more prevalent in deprived neighborhoods and among groups with lower education and incomes. Inequitable access to healthy foods is one mechanism by which socioeconomic factors can influence food choice behaviors, overall diet quality, and bodyweight. Having a supermarket in the immediate neighborhood has ...
متن کامل