TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Abrahamsson, Sara
AU  - Bütikofer, Aline
AU  - Karbownik, Krzysztof
        TI  - Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability
        PY  - 2023/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16109
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16109
        AB  - Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects on cognition. 
Heterogeneity analysis does not reveal meaningful differences in the effects across groups, including for those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at ages 0–12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education.

        KW  - fast food restaurants
KW  - food supply
KW  - BMI
KW  - obesity
KW  - cognitive ability
        ER  -