Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272736 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16109
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects on cognition. Heterogeneity analysis does not reveal meaningful differences in the effects across groups, including for those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at ages 0–12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education.
Subjects: 
fast food restaurants
food supply
BMI
obesity
cognitive ability
JEL: 
I12
I20
J13
L66
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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