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Title: Is There a Tradeoff between Remote Living and Healthy Living? The Impact of Remoteness on Body Weight
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Guettabi, Mouhcine Munasib, Abdul |
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Is There a Tradeoff between Remote Living and Healthy Living? The Impact of Remoteness on Body Weight Review of Regional Studies 48,2 (2018): 173-92. Also: https://rrs.scholasticahq.com/article/7998 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Regional Science Association Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Geocoded Data; Rural Areas; Rural/Urban Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), we examine the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and the remoteness of the county in which the individual lives. Remoteness in this study is identified by calculating the geographical position of the county with respect to metropolitan areas of different sizes (urban hierarchy) of the location. Since BMI affects where an individual chooses to live, there may be endogeneity bias. To address this concern, we identify patterns of mobility in which the choice of location is independent of BMI. In a framework that accounts for unobserved individual-level heterogeneity and sources of endogeneity bias, we show that after controlling for urban sprawl or location density, there is no systematic manner through which remoteness affects body weight. |
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Guettabi, Mouhcine and Abdul Munasib. "Is There a Tradeoff between Remote Living and Healthy Living? The Impact of Remoteness on Body Weight." Review of Regional Studies 48,2 (2018): 173-92.
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