【摘要】Using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth along with the child survey, weexamine the relationship between urban sprawl of U.S. metro counties and the body mass index (BMI)of children who reside in these counties. We make a distinction between urban sprawl in a county and its geographical placement in the urban hierarchy. Even after accounting for unobserved individualheterogeneity and resulting selection bias, we find that urban sprawl is positively related to child BMIand distance to large metros is negatively related to child BMI. These effects are somewhat pronouncedamong girls and middle/high school children.

【文献来源】Guettabi M;Munasib A.Journal of Regional Science.2014（3）