Can social interactions change the brain? Social network effects on obesity and related co-morbidities
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Keywords
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-NET-2015-08-01 (Network Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2015-08-01 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2015-08-01 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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