The contribution of Western fast food to fast-growing body mass in China

Johar, M; Maruyama, S; Truong, J

The contribution of Western fast food to fast-growing body mass in China

Johar, M

Maruyama, S

Truong, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (8), pp. 797 - 811
Issue Date:: 2017-02-13

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dc.contributor.author	Johar, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2381-1741	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Maruyama, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2945-7437	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Truong, J	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:05:35Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-13	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (8), pp. 797 - 811	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0003-6846	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115303
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The westernization of Asian countries has led to the rapid expansion of Western-style fast-food restaurants, which are believed to be fueling an unprecedented rise in body mass in these countries. This study tests this belief using longitudinal data from China. Exploiting the opening of a Western-style fast-food restaurant in a particular community, we conduct a transition analysis to make a more convincing causal interpretation than the standard cross-sectional or fixed-effects approach. Considering several measures of fatness, we find no robust evidence of Western fast food having a substantial effect overall, but there is some indication of effect heterogeneity.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Applied Economics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/00036846.2016.1205726	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	The contribution of Western fast food to fast-growing body mass in China	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The westernization of Asian countries has led to the rapid expansion of Western-style fast-food restaurants, which are believed to be fueling an unprecedented rise in body mass in these countries. This study tests this belief using longitudinal data from China. Exploiting the opening of a Western-style fast-food restaurant in a particular community, we conduct a transition analysis to make a more convincing causal interpretation than the standard cross-sectional or fixed-effects approach. Considering several measures of fatness, we find no robust evidence of Western fast food having a substantial effect overall, but there is some indication of effect heterogeneity.

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