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HEALTH & PLACE
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102159
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Neighborhood disadvantage; Obesity; Fixed effects
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I use 28 (1986-2014) years of restricted geocoded NLSY tract-level data and find positive associations between exposure to childhood neighborhood disadvantage and adult obesity and BMI among individuals growing up and entering adulthood during the rise of obesity in the United States. Sibling fixed effects and cousin fixed effects models partially address unobserved confounding nested in the nuclear as well as extended family. Furthermore, exposure to neighborhood disadvantage in adolescence is most salient, providing insight into when policy intervention may be most effective. Results are robust to alternative specifications for neighborhood disadvantage, ages of exposure, and to alternative sampling strategies.
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