A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes: Identifying causality through school transitions

This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public scho...

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Autores principales: Dunn, Richard A, Nayga, Rodolfo M, Thomsen, Michael R, Rouse, Heather L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33748759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaa007
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description This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public school system and transition to different types of schools, e.g. from elementary school to intermediate school or from intermediate school to high school. Using a longitudinal census of height and weight for public school students in Arkansas, we find no evidence that changes in fast-food exposure are associated with changes in body mass index z-score for any student subpopulation.
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spelling pubmed-79582962021-03-18 A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes: Identifying causality through school transitions Dunn, Richard A Nayga, Rodolfo M Thomsen, Michael R Rouse, Heather L Q Open Article This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public school system and transition to different types of schools, e.g. from elementary school to intermediate school or from intermediate school to high school. Using a longitudinal census of height and weight for public school students in Arkansas, we find no evidence that changes in fast-food exposure are associated with changes in body mass index z-score for any student subpopulation. Oxford University Press 2021-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7958296/ /pubmed/33748759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaa007 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press in association with European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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