Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic
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- 9 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Health Economics
- Vol. 27 (5), 1382-1387
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.04.005
Abstract
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