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Title: The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates Using Longitudinal Data

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1.	Gibson, Diane M.
1.	The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates Using Longitudinal Data Presented: Ithaca, NY, American Society of Health Economists, 3rd Biennial Conference, June 20-23, 2010. Also: http://ashecon2010.abstractbook.org/presentations/893/ Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Neighborhood Effects; Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Individual-level data on adults from the 1998 through 2004 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 were combined with ZIP Code-level data on the neighborhood food environment. Ordinary Least Squares models of obesity and Body Mass Index were estimated that included detailed measures of the neighborhood food environment as well as individual, family and other neighborhood characteristics and individual fixed effects. For residents of urban areas, the neighborhood density per square mile of small grocery stores was positively and significantly related to obesity and BMI, but the neighborhood densities of other types of food retail and food service establishments were not significantly related to weight status. For residents of rural areas there were no significant relationships between neighborhood establishment densities and weight status. The results of the empirical analyses are consistent with the hypothesis that an increase in the neighborhood density of small grocery stores in urban leads to increased calorie consumption for neighborhood residents.
	Bibliography Citation Gibson, Diane M. "The Neighborhood Food Environment and Adult Weight Status: Estimates Using Longitudinal Data." Presented: Ithaca, NY, American Society of Health Economists, 3rd Biennial Conference, June 20-23, 2010.

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