IMITATIVE OBESITY AND RELATIVE UTILITY
IMITATIVE OBESITY AND RELATIVE UTILITY
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DOI：
10.1162/jeea.2009.7.2-3.528
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Van Landeghem, Bert
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作者：
Blanchflower, David G.;Oswald, Andrew J.;Van Landeghem, Bert
如果人类关心自己的相对体重，就会出现一种模仿性肥胖（人们下意识地与体重相近的人保持一致）。利用欧洲晴雨表在29个国家的数据，本文提供了横向证据，表明超重认知和节食受到一个人的相对BMI的影响，以及来自德国社会经济小组的纵向证据，表明幸福感受到相对BMI的影响。受过高等教育的人认为自己比那些受教育程度低的人更胖——无论实际体重是多少。这些结果应该谨慎对待，固定效应的估计并不总是确定的很好，但有理由认真对待社会传染性肥胖的可能性。（结1,12,31）
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are influenced by a person's relative BMI, and longitudinal evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel that well-being is influenced by relative BMI. Highly educated people see themselves as fatter-at any given actual weight-than those with low education. These results should be treated cautiously, and fixed-effects estimates are not always well determined, but there are grounds to take seriously the possibility of socially contagious obesity. (JEL: D1, I12, I31)