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Nsiah, Christian Joshi, Prathibha V. |
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The Academic Cost of Being Overweight: Rural vs. Urban Area Differences - A Quantile Regression Approach Research in Higher Education Journal 4 (September 2009): 91-103. Also: http://www.aabri.com/manuscripts/09233.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Academic and Business Research Institute Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Modeling; Obesity; Psychological Effects; Rural/Urban Differences; Self-Esteem; Variables, Instrumental; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The number of overweight youth has more than doubled since the early 1970s. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 13 percent of children and adolescents are seriously overweight. Obesity among adolescents has been linked with behavioral and psychological problems, affecting adolescent socialization, self-esteem, and performance in all facets of life. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we employ ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, and quantile regression models to investigate how being overweight can impact a youth's education performance measured as actual credit weighted grade point average. Overall, we find a negative relationship between being overweight and GPA. We also find that the negative relationship is more pronounced in urban areas than in rural areas. The quantile regression estimate indicates that the magnitude of the relationship between youth's GPA and being overweight depends on the GPA quantile in question. |
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Nsiah, Christian and Prathibha V. Joshi. "The Academic Cost of Being Overweight: Rural vs. Urban Area Differences - A Quantile Regression Approach." Research in Higher Education Journal 4 (September 2009): 91-103.
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