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Title: Veteran Status and Body Weight: A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Approach
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Teachman, Jay D. Tedrow, Lucky M. |
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Veteran Status and Body Weight: A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Approach Population Research and Policy Review 32, 2 (April 2013): 199-220. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-012-9262-5 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Life Course; Military Service; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; Veterans; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. About 10–12 % of young men (and increasingly, women) have served a term in the military. Yet, we know relatively little about the consequences of military service for the lives of those who serve. In this article, we provide estimates of the relationship between men’s peacetime military service during the all-volunteer era (AVE) and body weight using longitudinal data on 6,304 men taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of 1979 (NLSY-79). Using fixed-effects estimators on up to 13 years of data and numerous controls for time-varying life-course characteristics linked to body weight, we find that veterans of active-duty military service have higher levels of BMI and obesity. We argue that eating habits learned during service, coupled with patterns of physical activity, lead to a situation whereby veterans making the transition to less active civilian lifestyles gain weight that is not lost over time. |
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Teachman, Jay D. and Lucky M. Tedrow. "Veteran Status and Body Weight: A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Approach." Population Research and Policy Review 32, 2 (April 2013): 199-220.
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