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标题：The Academic Cost of Being Overweight: Rural vs. Urban Area Differences - A Quantile Regression Approach
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作者：Christian Nsiah, Prathibha V. Joshi
期刊名称：Research in Higher Education Journal
印刷版ISSN：1941-3432
出版年度：2009
卷号：4
出版社：Academic and Business Research Institute
摘要：The number of overweight youth has more than doubled since the early 1970s. According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 13 percent of children and adolescents are seriously overweight. Obesity among adolescents has been linked with behavioral and psychological problems, affecting adolescent socialization, self-esteem, and performance in all facets of life. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we employ ordinary least squares, instrumental variables, and quantile regression models to investigate how being overweight can impact a youth’s education performance measured as actual creditweighted grade point average. Overall, we find a negative relationship between being overweight and GPA. We also find that the negative relationship is more pronounced in urban areas than in rural areas. The quantile regression estimate indicates that the magnitude of the relationship between youth’s GPA and being overweight depends on the GPA quantile in question. Keywords: Overweight, GPA, Quantile Regression, rural, urban, NLSY97.
关键词：Quantile Regression Approach;Disease Control;Children and Adolescents