Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

Lisa M. Powell, Frank J. Chaloupka

NBER Working Paper No. 15046
Issued in June 2009

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This research was supported by the National Research Initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, grant number 2005-35215-15372. We also are grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Bridging the Gap ImpacTeen project for making the price and outlet density data available to us. We thank Zeynep Isgor for her excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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