Social norms, ideal body weight and food
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Fabrice EtilΓ©
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper uses French data on ideal body weight and food attitudes to analyse the role of social norms in the individual's weight control problem. A proxy measure of social norms is calculated by averaging individual perceptions of the ideal Body Mass Index (BMI) over all observations