Alcohol consumption and body weight
dc.contributor.author | French, Michael T. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Norton, Edward C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Fang, Hai | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Maclean, Johanna Catherine | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-06T14:27:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-01T16:26:43Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2010-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | French, Michael T.; Norton, Edward C.; Fang, Hai; Maclean, Johanna Catherine (2010). "Alcohol consumption and body weight." Health Economics 19(7): 814-832. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77424> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1057-9230 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-1050 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/77424 | |
dc.description.abstract | The number of Americans who are overweight or obese has reached epidemic proportions. Elevated weight is associated with health problems and increased medical expenditures. This paper analyzes Waves 1 and 2 of the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions to investigate the role of alcohol consumption in weight gain. Alcohol is not only an addictive substance but also a high-calorie beverage that can interfere with metabolic function and cognitive processes. Because men and women differ in the type and amount of alcohol they consume, in the biological effects they experience as a result of alcohol consumption, and in the consequences they face as a result of obesity, we expect our results to differ by gender. We use first-difference models of body mass index (BMI) and alcohol consumption (frequency and intensity) to control for time-invariant unobservable factors that may influence changes in both alcohol use and weight status. Increasing frequency and intensity of alcohol use is associated with statistically significant yet quantitatively small weight gain for men but not for women. Moreover, the first-difference results are much smaller in magnitude and sometimes different in sign compared with the benchmark pooled cross-sectional estimates. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health | en_US |
dc.title | Alcohol consumption and body weight | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Statistics and Numeric Data | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Public Health | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Health Management and Policy, and Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Health Economics Research Group, Department of Sociology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Department of Economics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA ; Health Economics Research Group, Department of Sociology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Department of Economics, University of Miami, 5202 University Drive, Merrick Building, Room 121F, P.O. Box 248162, Coral Gables, FL 331284-2030, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Health Economics Research Group, Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19548203 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77424/1/1521_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/hec.1521 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Health Economics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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