| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13488 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13488 |
| Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures | |
| Alan C. Monheit; Jessica P. Vistnes; Jeannette A. Rogowski | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-10-15 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We consider two compelling research questions raised by the increased prevalence of overweight among adolescents. First, what factors explain variation in adolescent bodyweight and the likelihood of being overweight? Next, do overweight adolescents incur greater health care expenditures compared to those of normal weight? We address the former question by examining the contribution of individual characteristics, economic factors, parental and family attributes, and neighborhood characteristics to variation in these bodyweight outcomes. For the second question, we estimate a two-part, generalized linear model of health spending. Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, our econometric analyses indicate that adolescent bodyweight and the likelihood of being overweight are strongly associated with parental bodyweight, parental education, parental smoking behavior, and neighborhood attributes such as the availability of fresh food markets and convenience/snack food outlets, and neighborhood safety and material deprivation. Our expenditure model indicates that overweight females have annual expenditures that exceed those of normal weight by nearly $800 with part of the disparity explained by differences in mental health expenditures. We use both sets of empirical results to draw implications for policies to address adolescent overweight. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13488 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/571164 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alan C. Monheit,Jessica P. Vistnes,Jeannette A. Rogowski. Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures. 2007. |
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