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THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON OBESITY IN CANADA
Author(s) -
Latif Ehsan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.2946
Subject(s) - unemployment , economics , logit , overweight , obesity , unemployment rate , demographic economics , fixed effects model , econometrics , population , panel data , demography , medicine , macroeconomics , sociology
The paper used longitudinal Canadian data from the National Population Health Survey to estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions measured by provincial unemployment rate on individual obesity and BMI. To control for individual‐specific unobserved heterogeneity, the study utilized the conditional fixed effect logit and fixed effects models. The study found that unemployment rate had a significant positive impact on the probability of being severely obese. The study also found that unemployment rate significantly increased BMI. However, the study did not find any significant impact of unemployment rate on the probability of being overweight or obese. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.