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CHEN, YANNI HUFFMAN, WALLACE EDGAR An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight Presented: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2009, AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-29, 2009. Also: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/49291/2/HealthAAEA053009compla.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 6305 Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education, reading food labels (signaling a concern for good health), adjusted family income, opportunity cost of time, occupation, marital status, race and ethnicity) and his or her BMI at age 25. These decisions are represented by a trivariate probit model that is fitted to data for adults in the NLSY79 panel with geocodes that have been augmented with local area food, drink and health care prices. Separate analyses are undertaken for men and women due to basic physiological differences. Results include: Women and men who read food labels are more likely to participate in moderate and vigorous physical exercise, and women are less likely to be obese. Women with more education are more likely to be obese but educated men are less likely to be obesity. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables and non-alcoholic drinks increase likelihood of obesity for females but not for males; and a higher price for processed fruits and vegetables reduce likelihood of obesity for females but not for males. A larger BMI at age 25 has wage effects later in life and also increases the probability of being obese. PRAUSE, JOANN DOOLEY, DAVID HUH, JIMI Income Volatility and Psychological Depression American Journal of Community Psychology 43,1-2 (March 2009): 57-70 Cohort(s): NLSY79 ID Number: 6135 Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Income volatility appears to be increasing especially among lower income workers. Such volatility may reflect the ongoing shift of economic risk from employers to employees as marked by decreasing job security and employer-provided benefits. This study tests whether absolute volatility or downward volatility in income predict depression controlling for prior depression. A sample (n = 4,493) from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) with depression (CESD) measured at age 40 and prior depression measured eight to 10 years earlier was utilized. Downward volatility (frequency of income loss) was positively associated with depression; adjusting for downward volatility and other covariates, absolute volatility was negatively associated with depression. An interaction indicated a positive association between downward volatility and depression only when absolute volatility was high. These findings apply to respondents in a narrow age range (30 s) and the results warrant replication to identify the mediators linking absolute volatility and income loss to depression. SCHMEISER, MAXIMILIAN D. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Child Obesity: Revisiting the NLSY79 Presented: Milwaukee WI, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, July 2009. Also: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/49280/2/The%20Supplemental%20Nutrition%20Assistance%20Program%20and%20Child%20Obesity%20AAEA.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 6131 Publisher: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past three decades the prevalence of obesity among children in the United States has more than tripled. A clear income gradient exists in the prevalence of obesity, with low-income children significantly more likely to be obese. One suggested cause of the higher prevalence of obesity among children in low-income families is participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as the obesity prevalence among SNAP participants is consistently higher than that of eligible non-participants. This paper examines the effect of long-term SNAP participation on the obesity status of children ages 3 to 11 using data from the Children and Young Adults of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and an instrumental variables identification strategy. Doing so, I find that there is no effect of the SNAP on obesity status for either boys or girls. Search returned 3 items. Search Start: 17:30:46 Search Finish: 17:30:46
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