Trade openness and the obesity epidemic: a cross-national study of 175 countries during 1975–2016

This study assessed the longitudinal relationship between trade openness and obesity rate across 175 countries during 1975–2016. Two-way (country and year) fixed-effects regressions were performed to examine the openness index (i.e., sum of export and import over gross domestic product) in relation to country obesity rate, using data from World Health Organization and World Bank. The openness index was found to be positively associated with...