Analyzing the impact of public transit usage on obesity

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: SHE, Zhaowei, KING, Douglas M., SHELDON, Jacobson Sheldon
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• الموضوعات: Obesity; Transportation; Environment design; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7121; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8120/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0091743517301093_main.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of county-level public transit usage on obesity prevalence in the United States and assess the potential for public transit usage as an intervention for obesity. This study adopts an instrumental regression approach to implicitly control for pote...