Estimating peer effects on health in social networks
A response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; and Trogdon, Nonnemaker, and Pais
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23353571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J H Fowler (0000-0001-7795-1638, University of California San Diego), Nicholas A Christakis (0000-0001-5547-1086, Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1400-1405 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6296 • E-ISSN: 1879-1646 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.07.001 |
| PMID | 18692263 |
| PMCID | PMC2597062 |
| OpenAlex | W2140975485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 23 |
Causal inference · Disease · Framingham Heart Study · Framingham Risk Score · Obesity · Overweight · Political science · Population · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics) · Sociology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology · Gerontology
Development and Validation of a Short Scale to Measure How Social Relationships Support the Continuous and Conscious Endeavour to Lose Weight
Why and When "Flawed" Social Network Analyses Still Yield Valid Tests of no Contagion
Familiar faces, familiar spaces
Peer effects and the Freshman 15
Grandes datos, grandes desafíos para las ciencias sociales
Sensitivity Analysis for Contagion Effects in Social Networks
Alone in the crowd
Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network
Have adults lost their sense of play? An observational study of the social dynamics of physical (in)activity in German and Hawaiian leisure settings
Happy house
Social Relationships and Aging
Social network determinants of depression
Social contagion theory
Influence of peers and friends on children's and adolescents' eating and activity behaviors
The Spread of Alcohol Consumption Behavior in a Large Social Network
Edge overlap in weighted and directed social networks
Weight gain in adolescents and their peers
Family ties and child obesity in Italy
Understanding the Impact of Social Networks on the Spread of Obesity
The association between men’s family planning networks and contraceptive use among their female partners
Maternal education and infant health gradient
The influence of body weight on social network ties among adolescents
Happy House
Estimating sibling spillovers in health
Why are some groups physically active and others not? A contrast group analysis in leisure settings
Childhood Obesity and Academic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation
Happy House
‘Charting waters of New Seas’
The company you keep
How physical activity shapes, and is shaped by, adolescent friendships
The Spread of Evidence-Poor Medicine via Flawed Social-Network Analysis
Inequality as an Explanation for Obesity in the United States
Neighbourhood walking and regeneration in deprived communities
Peer influences on adolescent alcohol consumption
Predicting Homophily and Social Network Connectivity From Dyadic Behavioral Similarity Trajectory Clusters
Social network determinants of screen time among adolescents
Uncovering peer effects mechanisms with weight outcomes using spatial econometrics
Multiple contexts and adolescent body mass index
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications
Social Networks and Causal Inference
Obesity-related behaviors in adolescent friendship networks
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else Is Doing It Too
The acquisition of perceived descriptive norms as social category learning in social networks
The “unfriending” problem
Is there evidence that friends influence body weight? A systematic review of empirical research
You are what your friends eat
A qualitative study exploring how school and community environments shape the food choices of adolescents with overweight/obesity
The Relationship between Social Networks and Volunteerism among Seniors
Shared Norms and Their Explanation for the Social Clustering of Obesity
New Regression Models with Egocentric Social Network Data
Instrumental variables estimates of peer effects in social networks
The Coevolution of Networks and Political Attitudes
Does Your Body Know Who You Know? Multiple Roles of Network Members' Socioeconomic Status for Body Weight Ratings
On the Directionality Test of Peer Effects in Social Networks
Nurture net of nature
Influence flows in the academy
Causality in Political Networks
Does Fertility Behavior Spread among Friends
Peer effects in adolescent bodyweight
Siblings, friends, course-mates, club-mates
Government health insurance and spatial peer effects
How do peers influence BMI? Evidence from randomly assigned classrooms in South Korea
Is blood thicker than water? Peer effects in stent utilization among Floridian cardiologists
Self-reported health and gender
Redes sociais e comportamento sexual
Identifying Opinion Leaders to Promote Behavior Change
Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network
The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network
The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
Biases in Dynamic Models with Fixed Effects
Identification of Endogenous Social Effects
Multiple Imputation for Nonresponse in Surveys
Weight gain in adolescents and their peers
Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data
Birds of a Feather
| Citations per year | 3.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |