Social dynamics of obesity
By Mary A. Burke, Frank W Heiland. 2007
487 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Predicting emerging social conventions in online social networks (2012, background): “In one of the seminal works on social diffusion, Christakis and Fowler find evidence for the spread of obesity [15] and cooperative behavior [23] through social networks (but see [18]).”
- Random Coefficients on Endogenous Variables in Simultaneous Equations Models (2014, background): “…papers have studied social interactions between ‘ego and alter’ pairs of people, or between pairs of ‘best friends’, studying outcomes like sexual activity (Card and Giuliano 2013), obesity (Christakis and Fowler 2007, Cohen-Cole and Fletcher 2008), and educational achievement (Sacerdote 2001).”
- Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic. (2008, unknown): “Additional mechanisms suggested by CF include infectious causes of obesity or physiological imitation (see Burke and Heiland, 2007, for an example).”