Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria
The prevalence of overweight and obesity are increasing in many African countries and hence becoming regional public health challenges. We employ satellite-based night light intensity data as a proxy for urbanization to investigate the relationship between urbanization and women’s body weight. We us...
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| author | Abay, Kibrom A. Amare, Mulubrhan |
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| description | The prevalence of overweight and obesity are increasing in many African countries and hence becoming regional public health challenges. We employ satellite-based night light intensity data as a proxy for urbanization to investigate the relationship between urbanization and women’s body weight. We use two rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey data from Nigeria. We employ both nonparametric and parametric estimation approaches that exploit both the cross-sectional and longitudinal variations in night light intensities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1460482025-11-06T07:22:46Z Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria Abay, Kibrom A. Amare, Mulubrhan artificial light body mass index urbanization overweight public health women The prevalence of overweight and obesity are increasing in many African countries and hence becoming regional public health challenges. We employ satellite-based night light intensity data as a proxy for urbanization to investigate the relationship between urbanization and women’s body weight. We use two rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey data from Nigeria. We employ both nonparametric and parametric estimation approaches that exploit both the cross-sectional and longitudinal variations in night light intensities. 2018-09-28 2024-06-21T09:05:41Z 2024-06-21T09:05:41Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146048 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.09.001 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Abay, Kibrom A.; and Amare, Mulubrhan. 2018. Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1760. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146048 |
| spellingShingle | artificial light body mass index urbanization overweight public health women Abay, Kibrom A. Amare, Mulubrhan Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title | Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title_full | Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title_short | Urbanization and women’s body weight: Evidence from Nigeria |
| title_sort | urbanization and women s body weight evidence from nigeria |
| topic | artificial light body mass index urbanization overweight public health women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146048 |
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