| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14337 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14337 |
| Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility | |
| David G. Blanchflower; Andrew J. Oswald; Bert Van Landeghem | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-09-10 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are influenced by a person's relative BMI, and longitudinal evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter -- at any given actual weight -- than those with low education. These results should be treated cautiously, and fixed-effects estimates are not always well-determined, but there are grounds to take seriously the possibility of socially contagious obesity. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14337 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572010 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David G. Blanchflower,Andrew J. Oswald,Bert Van Landeghem. Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility. 2008. |
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| w14337.pdf（163KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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