School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to … American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to examine two factors that can potentially influence the amount of time children sleep: school … and maternal employment.I find that school-age children sleep less when school is in session than during the summer, and …

. 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 …

intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's outcomes. A large literature establishes that mother's pre …-pregnancy obesity is correlated with obesity in her children. However, previous research is largely based on comparing individuals … both within-family comparisons and an instrumental variable approach on a sample of 4435 children to identify the effect of …

employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating … in both waves in 16 regions of eight European countries. Peers are defined as same-sex children in the same school and … misperceptions of their own children's weight goes hand in hand with fatter peer groups, supporting the notion that in making such …

of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …

in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning permission for any new fast-food outlet. We …-2020. Data on food outlets were obtained from Food Standard Agency Food Hygiene Rating Scheme for 2012-2020. Data on area level … not use planning policy to restrict fast-food outlets. The analysis was at the Middle Super Output Area Level (MSOA). Our …

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … about risks and returns play for the allocation of time with children during the pandemic? We answer this question by … investment to be (i) more productive and (ii) less risky than the time spent by their children in formal childcare or with peers …