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Problem Set 2: Empirical Policy Exercise (Due in One Week: September 20) (Please make sure to catch up on your readings) Special Notes Related to All Problem Sets: A) Please type what you can B) All math problems do not have to be typed, but please write very clear and explain all derivations. C) Submission: A hard copy in class. On February 9, 2010, 12 PM, the former first lady Michelle Obama launched the “Let’s Move” campaign aimed at eliminating and reducing childhood obesity. As part of that effort, a new interactive tool was launched by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) that can assist individuals and researchers in studying obesity and health across the country. This tool is called The Food Environment Atlas and it is being updated periodically. See link at http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-environment-atlas or see link for Food Access Atlas https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/ The Atlas was updated on July 06, 2023. (You can see all the documentations, definitions and archived documentations, in the above link.) Your task is to 1. Study this Atlas and summarize briefly (no more than 200 words) some of the basic questions that can be answered using it and in what way it can help the policy maker. 2. Download the data (or use the Atlas directly when possible) and study the data of your Home County or the County where your family (or part of your family) currently resides or the County where you reside now. Using these data only, in this exercise, you are asked to A) Compare the basic statistics of that County (note: each observation is a county) with the overall country statistics. Note 1: There are no data about the population level of each county, so you need to think of an approximate way to calculate/estimate it using the available data. Note 2: There is no exact data on the country exact values, but you can get a good proxi by working with the means of all the counties.
2 B) Study Child obesity and other demographics in this County relative to the rest of the country. C) Study physical activity, food insecurity and food access, as well as other demographics in this County relative to the rest of the country. D) Study the socioeconomic characteristics of this County and compare to the overall country statistics. E) Using the econometric tools we discussed so far, suggest at least four questions that can be studied using these data and correspond to the objectives of the former First Lady (reducing/eliminating young children rate of obesity). F) Is it possible to study cause and effect using these data? Explain and support your argument with specific examples. G) Suggest possible improvements to the Atlas. Note: your suggestions need to be in line with its objectives. 3. With the objective of proposing a good policy aiming at eliminating (or reducing substantially) preschool obesity rate, what data would you add to this interactive tool (assuming you can get any data you wish) that will enable you to analyze your proposed policy? Explain. 4. Using the data in this atlas, can you prove that store availability (or unavailability – often referred to as ‘food desert’) causes childhood obesity? You need to explain and (whenever possible) validate with the data.
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