Limited Self-control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
ID
3699866
Author(s)
Stutzer, Alois; Meier, Armando N.
Author(s) at UniBasel
Stutzer, Alois Meier, Armando Nicolas
Year
2016
Title
Limited Self-control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness
Journal
Health Economics
Volume
25
Number
11
Pages / Article-Number
1409-1424
Mesh terms
Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Body Mass Index; Female; Happiness; Health Status; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Obesity, epidemiology; Self-Control, psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Switzerland, epidemiology
Abstract
Is obesity the consequence of an optimally chosen lifestyle or do people consume too much relative to their long-term preferences? The latter perspective accepts that people might face self-control problems when exposed to the immediate gratification from food. We exploit unique survey data for Switzerland in multinomial logit and ordered probit regressions to study (i) the covariates of obesity including indicators of self-control and (ii) the consequences of obesity on the subjective well-being of people with limited willpower. Our main finding is that obesity decreases the well-being of individuals who report having limited self-control, but not otherwise. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Publisher
Wiley
ISSN/ISBN
1057-9230 ; 1099-1050
URL
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3227/epdf
edoc-URL
http://edoc.unibas.ch/52258/
Full Text on edoc
Available
Digital Object Identifier DOI
10.1002/hec.3227
PubMed ID
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26315147
ISI-Number
WOS:000386142000006
Document type (ISI)
Journal Article
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