IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/lap/journl/620.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Trade-off between obesity and tobacco consumption

Author

Listed:
  • María Noelia Garbero, María Inés Lara, Monserrat Serio

    (UNCuyo y Fundación IDEAL; UNCuyo; UNCuyo)

Abstract

La evidencia reciente sugiere que la obesidad y la tasa de prevalencia del tabaco se mueven en direcciones opuestas. Este trabajo examina la relacion causal entre dichas variables en Argentina. Los efectos del consumo de tabaco en el peso corporal son estimados utilizando variables instrumentales para lidiar con problemas de endogeneidad. Con este fin, el trabajo toma provecho de leyes provinciales para el control del tabaco que fueron aplicadas en diferentes períodos temporales. Nuestros resultados muestran que fumar tiene un impacto negativo en tres medidas de peso corporal (BMI, peso en kilogramos, tasa de obesidad). Estos hallazgos sugieren que las reglamentaciones contra el tabaco deben ser complementadas con controles nutricionales y promoción de la actividad física.

Suggested Citation

  • María Noelia Garbero, María Inés Lara, Monserrat Serio, 2019. "Trade-off between obesity and tobacco consumption," Económica, Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, vol. 65, pages 125-172, January-D.
    • Handle: RePEc:lap:journl:620
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/Economica/article/view/7351/8389
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    obesity; tobacco consumption; health; Argentina.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:lap:journl:620. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Milagros Cejas (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/funlpar.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.