Access to Local Agriculture and Weight Outcomes
| dc.creator | Berning, Joshua P. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:03:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T06:02:49Z | |
| dc.description | Recent studies examine the impact of the built environment on health outcomes such as obesity. Several studies find for certain populations that access to unhealthy food has a positive effect on obesity, whereas access to healthy choices has a negative effect. Given the growth and popularity of locally grown food, we examine how individual weight outcomes are affected by access to direct-to-consumer local food. After controlling for potential endogeneity, we find that greater access to local food has a negative association with individual weight outcomes. We also find a negative association with greater weight loss over a one-year period. These results provide evidence that local food access can have potential indirect benefits. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.123313 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123313/files/berning%20-%20current.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123313 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/571682 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123313 | |
| dc.title | Access to Local Agriculture and Weight Outcomes | |
| dc.type | Text |