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de Oliveira AC, Leonard TC, Shuval K, et al. Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community. J Econ Behav Organ. 2015;131:196-208doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002.
de Oliveira, A. C., Leonard, T. C., Shuval, K., Skinner, C. S., Eckel, C., & Murdoch, J. C. (2016). Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 131196-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002
de Oliveira, Angela C M, et al. "Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community." Journal of economic behavior & organization vol. 131 (2016): 196-208. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002
de Oliveira AC, Leonard TC, Shuval K, Skinner CS, Eckel C, Murdoch JC. Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community. J Econ Behav Organ. 2016 Nov;131:196-208. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002. Epub 2015 Nov 24. PMID: 28133400; PMCID: PMC5267327.
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J Econ Behav Organ. 2016 Nov;131:196-208. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002. Epub 2015 Nov 24.

Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community.

Journal of economic behavior & organization

Angela C M de Oliveira, Tammy C M Leonard, Kerem Shuval, Celette Sugg Skinner, Catherine Eckel, James C Murdoch

Affiliations

  1. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Resource Economics, 203 Stockbridge Hall, 80 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003 USA, Ph: 413-545-5716.
  2. University of Texas at Dallas, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, Department of Economics, 800 W. Campbell Rd., GR31, Richardson, Texas 75080 USA. Present address : University of Dallas, Economics Department, 1845 East Northgate Drive, Irving, Texas 75062 USA.
  3. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, Dallas, Texas USA and The Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas USA. Present address: American Cancer Society, Intramural Research Department, Health Economics and Policy Program, 250 Williams St., Atlanta, GA 30303 USA.
  4. Department of Clinical Sciences, Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas USA 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9066.
  5. Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, 4228 TAMU, College Station, TX 77845.
  6. University of Texas at Dallas, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, Department of Economics, 800 W. Campbell Rd., GR31, Richardson, Texas 75080 USA.

PMID: 28133400 PMCID: PMC5267327 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.002

Abstract

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US, with a significantly higher fraction of African Americans who are obese than whites. Yet there is little understanding of why some individuals become obese while others do not. We conduct a lab-in-field experiment in a low-income African American community to investigate whether risk and time preferences play a role in the tendency to become obese. We examine the relationship between incentivized measures of risk and time preferences and weight status (BMI), and find that individuals who are more tolerant of risk are more likely to have a higher BMI. This result is driven by the most risk tolerant individuals. Patience is not independently statistically related to BMI in this sample, but those who are more risk averse and patient are less likely to be obese.

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