This paper investigates whether children are more or less likely to be overweight if their mothers work. The prevalence … of both overweight children and working mothers has risen dramatically over the past few decades, although these parallel … for children of white mothers, of mothers with more education, and of mothers with a high income level. Applying our …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …