Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms

dc.creator	Zeng, Di
dc.creator	Thomsen, Michael R.
dc.creator	Nayga, Rodolfo M. Jr.
dc.date	2017-04-01T13:48:02Z
dc.date.accessioned	2026-07-09T09:55:19Z
dc.description	Food deserts are increasingly considered as a potential cause of overweight and obesity, yet existing literature is largely inconclusive in part due to the infeasibility of sorting out multiple confounding mechanisms from a purely empirical perspective. This article investigates the hypothesized causality in a rational-choice framework, where the individual chooses how much to patronize a distant supermarket and/or a nearby convenience store, broadly defined, and the weight outcome depends on this choice. Results suggest that neither limited supermarket access nor low income, the key features of food deserts, would determine the weight outcome, which is also affected by individual preferences as well as time and monetary costs associated with grocery shopping. Parametric conditions under which varying effects on weight occur are further derived to elicit policy implications
dc.identifier	doi:10.22004/ag.econ.212813
dc.identifier	https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212813/files/Zeng%20_1_.pdf
dc.identifier	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212813
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/613684
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher
dc.source	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212813
dc.title	Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms
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