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Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight

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  • Shu Wen Ng
  • Edward C. Norton
  • David K. Guilkey
  • Barry M. Popkin

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The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as instruments to obtain statistically correct measures for the endogenous effects of diet, physical activity, drinking, and smoking on weight. We apply a dynamic panel system GMM estimation model to longitudinal (1991-2006) data from China to model weight and find that among adult men in China, about 6.1% of weight gain was due to declines in physical activity and 2.9-3.8% was due to dietary changes over this period. In the long run, physical activity can account for around 6.9% of weight gain, while diet can account for 3.2-4.2% of weight gain.

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  • Shu Wen Ng & Edward C. Norton & David K. Guilkey & Barry M. Popkin, 2010. "Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight," NBER Working Papers 15864, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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