Food away from home expenditures and obesity among older Europeans: Are there gender differences?

Andreas C. Drichoutis; Rodolfo M. Nayga; Panagiotis Lazaridis

doi:10.1007/s00181-011-0453-4

Food away from home expenditures and obesity among older Europeans: Are there gender differences?

Andreas C. Drichoutis, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Panagiotis Lazaridis

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Abstract

Older people (i. e., at least 50 years of age) are becoming one of the most important demographic groups in the world. We explore the effect of food away from home expenditures on obesity among the older population in Europe using instrumental variable methods. Several statistical tests were conducted to assess endogeneity of selected variables, the exogeneity, relevance, and validity of instruments used. Our results generally suggest that food-away-from-home expenditure has no statistically significant effect on body mass index (BMI) of older males but is negatively related to BMI of older females.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1051-1078
Number of pages	28
Journal	Empirical Economics
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-011-0453-4
Publication status	Published - 2012 Jun

Keywords

Body Mass Index
Food expenditures
GMM
Instrumental variables

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Mathematics (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics

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