employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for …Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare … prepregnancy obesity with the exception of LGA, SGA, low birth weight and preterm birth. We find that prepregnancy obesity is …

. 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 …

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 …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations … have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in …

In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program … results, indicating that the SBP is a valuable tool in the current battle against childhood obesity, whereas the NSLP …

-pregnancy obesity is correlated with obesity in her children. However, previous research is largely based on comparing individuals … maternal pre-pregnancy obesity on obesity in preschool-aged children. Consistent with extant research, OLS models that rely on …The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which … 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 …

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample … of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …