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FAST FOOD PRICES AND ADULT BODY WEIGHT OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE BASED ON LONGITUDINAL QUANTILE REGRESSION MODELS.

With a parallel increase in the consumption of food away from home, particularly fast food, and the obesity prevalence in the United States, evidence on the potential effectiveness of fiscal pricing policies to curb obesity is needed. We estimate changes in the dispersion of the entire conditional d...

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Published in:Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 528 - 537
Main Authors: HAN, EUNA, POWELL, LISA M.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2013
Subjects:
United States
Obesity
Prices
Convenience foods
Body mass index
Disease prevalence
Diseases in adults
Health outcome assessment
Regression analysis
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