The effects of COVID‐19 lockdown on the body weight and lifestyle behaviors of U.S. adults.
The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated policies may have impacted body weight and related lifestyle behaviors. Using 2017–2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, we estimate the effects of COVID‐19 lockdown on Body Mass Index (BMI) and the probability of obesity among adults in the Unite...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 900 - 949 |
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