INVESTIGATING THE POVERTY-OBESITY PARADOX

Poverty is usually associated with food scarcity and under nutrition, but recent statistics tell us that in developed countries there seems to be a correlation between poverty and obesity, the so called Poverty-Obesity paradox. This paper investigates this relation for elderly in Europe using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement. We account for endogeneity with a bivariate probit model, where identification is achieved using regional poverty as instrument for poverty status.