Weight Loss and Sexual Activity in Adult Obese Individuals: Establishing a Causal Link

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-15 DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2022-0039

Arndt R. Reichert, Harald Tauchmann, Ansgar Wübker

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Abstract

Abstract Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is likely to result in biased estimation results, the analysis is based on data from a randomized field experiment. In this experiment, financial weight-loss rewards were offered to a random subgroup of participants and can be used as an exogenous source of weight variation in an instrumental variables approach. Estimation results indicate that for obese males losing weight, both the probability of being involved in a sexual relationship and the frequency of sexual intercourse increases. The same pattern of results is found when pooling both sexes in the sample. Due to the small share of women in the sample, the analysis yields no reliable results specifically for females.

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成人肥胖者体重减轻与性行为:建立因果关系

肥胖不仅与不良的健康结果有关，而且与性生活的限制有关。本文旨在评估成人肥胖者体重减轻与性行为之间是否存在因果关系。为了解决体重减轻的内生性，这可能会导致有偏差的估计结果，分析是基于随机现场实验的数据。在本实验中，财务减肥奖励提供给随机分组的参与者，并可作为工具变量方法中体重变化的外源。估计结果表明，对于体重减轻的肥胖男性，发生性关系的概率和性交的频率都增加了。将两种性别的样本汇集在一起，也发现了同样的结果模式。由于样本中女性的比例很小，因此分析没有得出专门针对女性的可靠结果。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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