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Article: Obesity and sex ratios in the U.S.
Title | Obesity and sex ratios in the U.S. |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Incarceration Marriage markets Obesity Sex ratio |
Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, v. 14, n. 2, p. 269-292 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper studies how rising male incarceration and its impact on marriage markets has affected female incentives to gain weight. Exogenous variation in marriage market conditions is obtained from differential trends in male incarceration rates across markets defined by race, location and age. We provide evidence that marriage market conditions do in fact affect the incidence of obesity. In particular, we find that increases in male imprisonment that reduced the male–female sex-ratio explain about 18 % of the increase in the female obesity rate for African-Americans in the United States over the 1990s. Results are particularly large for those in the younger age group (ages 18–23). |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346587 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.828 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lin, Wanchuan | - |
dc.contributor.author | McEvilly, Kathryn | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pantano, Juan | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-17T04:11:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-17T04:11:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, v. 14, n. 2, p. 269-292 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1569-5239 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/346587 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies how rising male incarceration and its impact on marriage markets has affected female incentives to gain weight. Exogenous variation in marriage market conditions is obtained from differential trends in male incarceration rates across markets defined by race, location and age. We provide evidence that marriage market conditions do in fact affect the incidence of obesity. In particular, we find that increases in male imprisonment that reduced the male–female sex-ratio explain about 18 % of the increase in the female obesity rate for African-Americans in the United States over the 1990s. Results are particularly large for those in the younger age group (ages 18–23). | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Review of Economics of the Household | - |
dc.subject | Incarceration | - |
dc.subject | Marriage markets | - |
dc.subject | Obesity | - |
dc.subject | Sex ratio | - |
dc.title | Obesity and sex ratios in the U.S. | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11150-014-9269-2 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84907462402 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 269 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 292 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1573-7152 | - |