Asirvatham, Jebaraj; Thomsen, Michael; Nayga, Rodolfo M. Jr. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
This study investigates whether peers are a contributing factor in childhood body-weight outcomes. Using an instrumental variables method on exogenously assigned peers, we find that the weight of peers within the same grade and school significantly impacts body mass index (BMI) z-score of an...