全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w23901
来源ID	Working Paper 23901
	How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea
	Jaegeum Lim; Jonathan Meer
发表日期	2017-10-09
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where students are randomly assigned to classrooms, and exploit the variation in peer body mass index. We use the number of peers' siblings as an instrument to account for endogeneity concerns and measurement error. Heavier peers increase the likelihood that a student is heavier; there is no spurious correlation for height, which is unlikely to have peer contagion. Public policy that targets obesity can have spillovers through social networks.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w23901
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/581574
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jaegeum Lim,Jonathan Meer. How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea. 2017.