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Title: | What Lies Behind Socio-Economic Inequalities in Obesity in Spain? A Decomposition Approach |
Author: | Costa i Font, Joan Gil, Joan, 1966- |
Keywords: | Obesitat Salut pública Economia del benestar Obesity Public health Welfare economics |
Issue Date: | Feb-2008 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd |
Abstract: | The expansion of obesity stands as a major food related health concern arguably driven by a socio-economic vector. However, alongside its prevalence, still scant evidence has examined on the underlying factors that explain the emergence socio-economic inequalities in obesity. This paper makes use of evidence form Spain to empirically address the hypothesis of the existence of income-related inequalities in the probability of suffering obesity in Spain using data from 2003. Besides quantifying inequalities, we take advantage of a concentration index methodology that allows a decomposition of the cross-section explanatory factors. Our findings provide suggestive evidence of significant socio-economic inequalities in the probability of being obese in Spain. However, in decomposing such inequalities we find that education attainment and other demographic covariates appear to have a prominent influence. Hence, rather than the so-called pure ''income effect', we conclude that socio-economic inequalities in obesity result from the additional influence of other confounding -observed and unobserved-effects. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2007.05.005 |
It is part of: | Food Policy, 2008, vol. 33, num. 1, p. 61-73 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/107789 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2007.05.005 |
ISSN: | 0306-9192 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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