Food deserts and childhood obesity

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-124

  Alviola, Pedro A ^a   Nayga, Rodolfo M ^a,b   Thomsen, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Food deserts; Panel regression methods; Panel spatial error models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874152854     PISSN: 20405790     EISSN: 20405804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aepp/pps035     Document Type: Article

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