Food deserts and childhood obesity

Pedro A. Alviola; Rodolfo M. Nayga; Michael Thomsen

doi:10.1093/aepp/pps035

Food deserts and childhood obesity

Pedro A. Alviola, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Michael Thomsen

Department of Food and Resource Economics

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Abstract

We utilize a panel data set from 2007 to 2009 on the state of Arkansas to identify and determine the effect of food deserts on school district obesity rates. We define food deserts as low-income areas with limited food access. Using both classical panel data models and spatial error models, we find no statistically significant relationship between school district obesity rates and the existence of food deserts in Arkansas. This finding is consistent across different model specifications, in spatial, panel or cross-sectional analysis, and with or without urban school districts in the data.

Original language	English
Article number	pps035
Pages (from-to)	106-124
Number of pages	19
Journal	Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps035
Publication status	Published - 2013 Mar

Keywords

Childhood obesity
Food deserts
Panel regression methods
Panel spatial error models

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Economics and Econometrics

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