Amenity, Diversity and Obesity: Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities

Stephen Popick () and Anthony Yezer

Working Papers from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: Some sources of heterogeneity among cities, i.e. age, gender, race, income, and education, have been the object of substantial inquiry. The reasons are obvious. These differences are easily observed and may have important implications for economic activity. This study considers another potentially important population characteristic, obesity. Descriptive statistics reveal that the intercity variance in obesity rates is substantial. Empirical results demonstrate that demographic and regional amenity variables all have a relation to intercity differences in obesity. Because obesity is important for preferences, performance, and productivity, its omission from previous studies and its correlation with amenity and demographic characteristics, could create problems for empirical research.

JEL-codes: I12 J10 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2015-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-hea, nep-lab and nep-ure
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