题目：Weight Gains from Multinational Fast Food Restaurants: Evidence from China

时间：2020年10月29日 15:00-16:30

地点：大学城文科三栋415室

腾讯会议号：754 852 147；密码：1122（线下会议同时线上直播，学生请到现场参加）

主讲人：林发勤 （中国农业大学经济与管理学院教授）

 摘要：

This study examines the obesity effect of proximity to US fast food restaurants (KFC or McDonald) on Chinese. We first provide some stylized facts and raise the hypothesis that proximity to KFC or McDonald increases overweight. We then put the hypothesis into a test using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. Exploiting community (district in urban area and village unit in rural area) level KFC or McDonald density within 10 KMs by using the geo-coding information, we find that the exposure to KFC or McDonald adversely affects people obesity. Our results are robust in a number of further checks and placebo tests. The pro-obesity effects are more pronounced for the lower educated than high educated, and for men than women.  Further welfare analysis indicates that ignoring obesity outcomes would substantially underestimate the welfare disparity between high educated and low educated people in China.  

 主讲人简介：

林发勤，中国农业大学经济管理学院教授、博士生导师。2011年、2012年先后在对外经济贸易大学、澳大利亚阿德莱德大学获得经济学博士学位。研究方向涵盖国际贸易、发展经济学和应用计量，在Journal of Development Economics、Journal of Comparative Economics、World Development、 Journal of Regional Science、《经济研究》等国内外顶级期刊发表论文多篇。

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