Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI
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Keywords
Body Mass Index; peer effects; migration; obesity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2018-10-15 (Health Economics)
- NEP-URE-2018-10-15 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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