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Author: Gibson, Diane M.
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1. Gibson, Diane M.
Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97
In: Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches. R.T. Michael, ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001: pp. 258-295
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Keyword(s): Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Obesity; Parental Influences; Program Participation/Evaluation; Self-Reporting; Weight

Chapter: Examined the relation between Food Stamp Program participation and the health of youths (aged 12-18 yrs) using data from the 1st round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort. The measures of health used were indicators of whether a youth was underweight or obese, a youth's self-reported health status, and chronic-illness status as reported by the youth's parents. Findings indicate that the relation between Food Stamp Program participation and youth health is not strong. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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Gibson, Diane M. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97" In: Social Awakening: Adolescent Behavior as Adulthood Approaches. R.T. Michael, ed. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001: pp. 258-295
2. Gibson, Diane M.
Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity: Estimates from the NLSY79
JCPR Working Paper No. 279, Joint Center for Poverty Research, September 2002.
Also: http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=321
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Joint Center for Poverty Research
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Obesity

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This paper examines the relationship between Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation and adult obesity. Based on past empirical research and the human capital model of the demand for health developed by Grossman (1972), the expected relationship between FSP participation and obesity is indeterminate. This paper uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to examine this relationship empirically and estimates reduced form models of the demand for health with obesity and body mass index (BMI) as the outcomes of interest. A benefit of using the NLSY79 is that it is possible to include detailed controls for current income, FSP participation and long-term eligibility for and participation in the FSP, as well as individual fixed effects.

Current and long-term FSP participation are positively and significantly related to obesity and BMI for low-income women in models with individual fixed effects. The estimates suggest that benefits from the FSP do not have the same relationship to obesity and BMI as cash income or as other benefits provided by the government. Current FSP participation is associated with approximately a 9.2% increase in the predicted probability of obesity and five years of FSP participation in the previous five years is associated with approximately a 19.4% increase in the predicted probability of obesity for low-income women. The relationship between FSP participation and BMI, although statistically significant, is considerably smaller in percentage terms. Current FSP participation is associated with approximately a 0.7% increase in predicted BMI and five years of FSP participation in the previous five years is associated with approximately a 2.8% increase in predicted BMI for low-income women. Current and long-term FSP participation are not significantly related to obesity for low-income married men in models with individual fixed effects. However, long-term FSP participation is positively and significantly related to BMI. Five years of FSP participation in the previous five years is associated with approximately a 3.3% increase in predicted BMI for low-income married men.

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Gibson, Diane M. "Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity: Estimates from the NLSY79." JCPR Working Paper No. 279, Joint Center for Poverty Research, September 2002.
3. Gibson, Diane M.
Food Stamp Program Participation Is Positively Related To Obesity In Low Income Women
The Journal of Nutrition 133,7 (July 2003): 2225-2231.
Also: http://www.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/7/2225
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Keyword(s): Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Income Level; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; Poverty; Welfare

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This study examined the relationship between Food stamp Program (FSP) participation and the obesity of low income individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Obesity was defined as body mass index [greater than or equal to] 30 kg/[m.sup.2]. The data were arranged as a panel with multiple observations per individual, and the models of obesity included current and long-term FSP participation, additional demographic, socioeconomic and environment characteristics and individual fixed effects. Individual fixed effects were used to take into account unobserved differences across individuals that did not vary over time. In ordinary least squares models, current and long-term FSP participation were significantly related to the obesity of low income women (P < 0.05), but not of low income men. For low income women, current participation in the FSP was associated with a 9.1% increase in the predicted probability of current obesity. Participation in the FSP in each of the previous five years compared to no participation over that time period was associated with approximately a 20.5% increase in the predicted probability of current obesity. These models did not control for food insecurity, and this omission potentially complicates the interpretation of the FSP participation variables.
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Gibson, Diane M. "Food Stamp Program Participation Is Positively Related To Obesity In Low Income Women." The Journal of Nutrition 133,7 (July 2003): 2225-2231.
4. Gibson, Diane M.
Influence of Food Stamp Program Participation on Adult Health: Estimated from the NLSY79
Presented: Washington, DC, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program Conference, October 2001
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Keyword(s): Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale

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Gibson, Diane M. "Influence of Food Stamp Program Participation on Adult Health: Estimated from the NLSY79." Presented: Washington, DC, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Small Grants Program Conference, October 2001.
5. Gibson, Diane M.
Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation is Differentially Related to Overweight in Young Girls and Boys
Journal of Nutrition 134,2 (February 2004): 372-380.
Also: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=12385679&db=aph
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Demography; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors; Obesity; Socioeconomic Factors; Weight

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This paper examines the relation between long-term Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation and overweight in children using data on children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child Sample. A child was categorized as overweight if his or her BMI was = the 95th percentile of sex- and age-specific BMI. The data were arranged as a panel with multiple observations per child, and the preferred models of overweight included long-term FSP participation, additional demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics, and child fixed effects. Child fixed effects were used to take into account unobserved differences across children that did not vary over time. The models were estimated separately for younger (5-11 y old) and older (12-18 y old) children. In Ordinary Least Squares models, long-term FSP participation was positively and significantly related to overweight in young girls (P = 0.048), and negatively and significantly related to overweight in young boys (P = 0.100). Compared with girls and boys whose families did not participate in the FSP during the previous 5 y, FSP participation during all of the previous 5 y was associated with a 42.8% increase for young girls and a 28.8% decrease for young boys in the predicted probability of overweight. Long-term FSP participation was not significantly related to overweight in older children. Although these models did not control for food insecurity, the potential role of food insecurity in FSP participation was considered in the interpretation of the relation between FSP participation and child weight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Gibson, Diane M. "Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation is Differentially Related to Overweight in Young Girls and Boys." Journal of Nutrition 134,2 (February 2004): 372-380.
6. Gibson, Diane M.
Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation Is Positively Related to Simultaneous Overweight in Young Daughters and Obesity in Mothers
Journal of Nutrition 136,4 (April 2006): 1081-1085
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Keyword(s): Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers and Daughters; Obesity

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Previous research using longitudinal data has found a positive and significant relationship between Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation and overweight in young girls and obesity in low-income women. This paper examined whether these relationships occurred simultaneously for members of the same family using longitudinal data on young (aged 4.5-11.5 y) girls and their mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The results of ordinary least squares models that included detailed measures of individual, family, and environment characteristics and daughter or mother fixed effects indicated that all of the positive association between long-term FSP participation and overweight in daughters was accounted for by the association between long-term FSP participation and simultaneous overweight in daughters and obesity in mothers. Similarly, all of the positive association between long-term FSP participation and obesity in mothers was accounted for by the association between long-term FSP participation and simultaneous obesity in mothers and overweight in at least 1 young daughter. These results suggest that the relationship between long-term FSP participation and weight is a family phenomenon.
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Gibson, Diane M. "Long-Term Food Stamp Program Participation Is Positively Related to Simultaneous Overweight in Young Daughters and Obesity in Mothers." Journal of Nutrition 136,4 (April 2006): 1081-1085.
7. Gibson, Diane M.
Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation, and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97
JCPR Working Paper No. 163, Joint Center for Poverty Research, March 2000.
Also: http://www.jcpr.org/wp/WPprofile.cfm?ID=170
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Joint Center for Poverty Research
Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Health Factors; Obesity; Poverty; Program Participation/Evaluation; Weight

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This paper examines the relationship between family income, Food Stamp Program participation, and the health of youths ages 12 to 18 using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). This chapter tests two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that poverty is negatively related to youth health. The second hypothesis is that participation in the Food Stamp Program is associated with better health for poor youths. The measures of youth health used in this chapter are indicators of whether the youth is underweight or obese, the youth's self-reported health status, and parent-reported incidence of chronic illness in the youth. The health of the youths in the NLSY97 is analyzed using cross-sectional logistic regression models that control for current family income, the poverty history of the youth?s family, and Food Stamp Program participation, as well as other youth and family characteristics. The empirical analyses do not account for the potential endogeneity of youth health, family income, or Food Stamp receipt.
Bibliography Citation
Gibson, Diane M. "Poverty, Food Stamp Program Participation, and Health: Estimates from the NLSY97." JCPR Working Paper No. 163, Joint Center for Poverty Research, March 2000.
8. Gibson, Diane M.
The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates from Longitudinal Data
American Journal of Public Health 101,1 (January 2011): 71-78.
Also: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/1/71
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Geocoded Data; Geographical Variation; Neighborhood Effects; Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors; Obesity; Rural/Urban Differences; Weight

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OBJECTIVES: I used longitudinal data to consider the relationship between the neighborhood food environment and adult weight status.

METHODS: I combined individual-level data on adults from the 1998 through 2004 survey years of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 with zip code-level data on the neighborhood food environment. I estimated ordinary least squares models of obesity, body mass index (BMI), and change in BMI.

RESULTS: For residents of urban areas, the neighborhood density of small grocery stores was positively and significantly related to obesity and BMI. For individuals who moved from a rural area to an urban area over a 2-year period, changes in neighborhood supermarket density, small grocery store density, and full-service restaurant density were significantly related to the change in BMI over that period.

CONCLUSIONS: Residents of urban neighborhoods with a higher concentration of small grocery stores may be more likely to patronize these stores and consume more calories because small grocery stores tend to offer more unhealthy food options than healthy food options. Moving to an urban area may expose movers to a wider variety of food options that may influence calorie consumption.

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Gibson, Diane M. "The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates from Longitudinal Data." American Journal of Public Health 101,1 (January 2011): 71-78.
9. Gibson, Diane M.
The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates Using Longitudinal Data
Presented: Ithaca, NY, American Society of Health Economists, 3rd Biennial Conference, June 20-23, 2010.
Also: http://ashecon2010.abstractbook.org/presentations/893/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Neighborhood Effects; Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors; Obesity; Weight

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Individual-level data on adults from the 1998 through 2004 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 were combined with ZIP Code-level data on the neighborhood food environment. Ordinary Least Squares models of obesity and Body Mass Index were estimated that included detailed measures of the neighborhood food environment as well as individual, family and other neighborhood characteristics and individual fixed effects.

For residents of urban areas, the neighborhood density per square mile of small grocery stores was positively and significantly related to obesity and BMI, but the neighborhood densities of other types of food retail and food service establishments were not significantly related to weight status. For residents of rural areas there were no significant relationships between neighborhood establishment densities and weight status. The results of the empirical analyses are consistent with the hypothesis that an increase in the neighborhood density of small grocery stores in urban leads to increased calorie consumption for neighborhood residents.

Bibliography Citation
Gibson, Diane M. "The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates Using Longitudinal Data." Presented: Ithaca, NY, American Society of Health Economists, 3rd Biennial Conference, June 20-23, 2010.