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Eating Behavior and Social Interactions from Adolescence to Adulthood
2012
Social Science Research Network
This paper analyzes the importance of social ties for eating behavior of US youth. We propose a novel approach that addresses identi...cation of social endogenous e¤ects. We overcome the problem of measuring the separate impact of endogenous and contextual e¤ects on individual Body Mass Index (BMI) in a dynamic linearin-means model, where individual-and group-speci...c unobservable e¤ects are controlled for. We show that the main drivers of eating behavior are habituation and imitation e¤ects.
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2098920
fatcat:ylyoqhrf3jdo3oibejwvevoauy