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    “There She Is, Your Ideal”Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
    Christopher S. Carpenter and Brandyn F. Churchill
    Journal of Human Resources, August 2023, 0522-12347R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0522-12347R1
    Christopher S. Carpenter
    Carpenter is University Distinguished Professor and E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at IZA Institute for the Study of Labor; .
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    Brandyn F. Churchill
    Churchill is Assistant Professor of Resource Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst; .
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