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Fast-Food Consumption and Child Body Mass Index in China: Application of an Endogenous Switching Regression Model

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  • Wisdom Akpalu
  • Xu Zhang

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The rapid economic growth experienced within the past two decades in China highly correlates with childhood overweightness. The epidemic has become an issue of grave concern. A principal factor considered to be responsible for the epidemic in the literature is unhealthy food intake, such as fast-food consumption. This paper has found a positive impact of fast-food consumption on children's body mass index.

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  • Wisdom Akpalu & Xu Zhang, 2014. "Fast-Food Consumption and Child Body Mass Index in China: Application of an Endogenous Switching Regression Model," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-139, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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