TY - JOUR
T1 - What determines obesity in oil-rich UAE? New evidence from survey data
AU - Katsaiti, Marina Selini
AU - El Anshasy, Amany A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the UAEU-CBE Summer Research Grant for the valuable financial assistance received. We also thank the following UAEU faculty members who assisted in our data collection: Emilie Routledge, Javaid Ali, Cesar Ortiz Moya, Osama Sweidan, Steve Kranz, Robert Zacca, Dorra Laribi, Louis Jaek, Tarek Elganzouri and Daniel Houlder. A special thanks goes to Muayad Khougali, who provided valuable research assistance.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We conduct a survey on university undergraduate students and use the novel data set to investigate the possible determinants of overweight and obesity in the UAE. Our results indicate that being male, married, rich and non-national is associated with higher BMI and students with these features are in greater risk of overweight/obesity. For students originating from MENA countries, we find a positive effect for eating out, income and computer use.
AB - We conduct a survey on university undergraduate students and use the novel data set to investigate the possible determinants of overweight and obesity in the UAE. Our results indicate that being male, married, rich and non-national is associated with higher BMI and students with these features are in greater risk of overweight/obesity. For students originating from MENA countries, we find a positive effect for eating out, income and computer use.
KW - BMI
KW - UAE
KW - obesity
KW - socioeconomic determinants
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U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2013.829186
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2013.829186
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884486385
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 20
SP - 1574
EP - 1579
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 17
ER -