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Does using planning policy to restrict fast food outlets reduce inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity?
Xiang, Huasheng; Albani, Viviana; Goffe, Louis; Akhter, … - 2022
explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471322
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Anthropometric mobility during childhood
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756011
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C-sections, obesity, and health-care specialization : evidence from Mexico
Herrera, Catalina; Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda; Prina, Silvia - 2023
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of hospitals' patient pools may affect the quantity and quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311942
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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009
. 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 … as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858880
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322077
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The effect of health insurance on child nutritional outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Costa-Font, Joan; Ritter, Patricia - 2022
We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343430
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168222
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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. -- child care ; subsidy … receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488416
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The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195919
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The impact of physical education on obesity among elementary school children
Cawley, John H.; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This … spillovers to achievement test scores. -- obesity ; physical activity ; physical education ; children ; health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581227