کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5056809 1476553 2017 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Investigating the poverty-obesity paradox in Europe
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بررسی پارادوکس فقر و چاقی در اروپا
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی


- We estimate the causal effect of poverty on obesity.
- Early-life economic conditions and regional circumstances are used as instruments for poverty.
- A significant and positive effect of poverty on obesity is found for both men and women.

This paper investigates the effect of income- and wealth-based poverty on the probability of being obese for the elderly in Europe by analysing data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We use early-life economic conditions and regional circumstances as instruments for poverty later in life to account for endogeneity issues. After controlling for a large set of covariates at the individual, household, regional and country level, the results show that poverty significantly increases the probability of being obese and the Body Mass Index (BMI), for men and women. The results show that, accounting for endogeneity with a bivariate probit model, poor individuals are from 10 to 20% points more likely to be obese than non-poor individuals. The effect on BMI ranges from 0.295 points (2.39 kg) to 0.395 points (2.75 kg). These results are robust to a series of checks and suggest that anti-poverty interventions might have positive side effects in terms of reducing food-related health inequalities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics & Human Biology - Volume 26, August 2017, Pages 70-85
نویسندگان
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