has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood quality affect children's bodyweight outcomes, and whether racial and ethnic … quality is not significantly related to children's bodyweight. However, one particular characteristic, namely whether or not … robust and significant effects on the BMI-percentile of the children, though it has less robust effects on the risk of …

correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …

children and the weight gain of over 3 million pregnant women. We find that among 9th grade children, a fast food restaurant … school children and mothers, the presence of non-fast food restaurants is uncorrelated with weight outcomes. Moreover …