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- Title
Food away from home expenditures and obesity among older Europeans: are there gender differences?
- Authors
Drichoutis, Andreas; Nayga, Rodolfo; Lazaridis, Panagiotis
- Abstract
Older people (i.e., at least 50 years of age) are becoming one of the most important demographic groups in the world. We explore the effect of food away from home expenditures on obesity among the older population in Europe using instrumental variable methods. Several statistical tests were conducted to assess endogeneity of selected variables, the exogeneity, relevance, and validity of instruments used. Our results generally suggest that food-away-from-home expenditure has no statistically significant effect on body mass index (BMI) of older males but is negatively related to BMI of older females.
- Subjects
EUROPE; OBESITY; GENDER differences (Psychology); EUROPEANS; BODY mass index; EXOGENEITY (Econometrics); HEALTH
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 3, p1051
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-011-0453-4