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NO. 359 报告人:林发勤

外资快餐店的肥胖效应:来自中国的证据

编辑:张亚楠时间:2021-10-19访问次数:521

题目:   外资快餐店的肥胖效应:来自中国的证据

报告人:林发勤 教    授       中国农业大学经济管理学院

主持人:叶   兵  副教授       浙江大学民营经济研究中心

时间:   2021年10月29日(星期五) 下午1:30 -3:00

地点:   腾讯会议(会议 ID:850 794 834; 本次会议对外开放,请加入会议者将个人姓名备注为 真实姓名+单位)

摘要: This study examines the obesity effect of proximity to US fast food restaurants (KFC or McDonald) on Chinese. We first provide some stylized facts and raise the hypothesis that proximity to KFC or McDonald increases overweight. We then put the hypothesis into a test using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. Exploiting community (district in urban area and village unit in rural area) level KFC or McDonald density within 10 KMs by using the geo-coding information, we find that the exposure to KFC or McDonald adversely affects people obesity. Our results are robust in a number of further checks and placebo tests. The pro-obesity effects are more pronounced for the lower educated than high educated, and for men than women. Further welfare analysis indicates that ignoring obesity outcomes would substantially underestimate the welfare disparity between high educated and low educated people in China.

简介:林发勤,中国农业大学经济管理学院教授、博士生导师、青年长江学者。担任全球食物经济和政策研究院研究员、国家农业市场研究中心研究员、国际经济研究所执行所长,SSCI期刊China Economic Review副主编、《长安大学学报》(社会科学版)编委、Asian Development Policy Review执行主编。林教授的研究方向为国际贸易学和发展经济学的应用研究,已在JIE, JDE, EER, JEBO, JCE,WD以及《经济研究》,《管理世界》国内外顶级期刊等发表了多篇学术论文。同时,作为负责人主持国家自然科学基金项目、北京自然科学基金项目、农业部项目多项,多次获得“安子介”国际贸易研究奖。 



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