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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
, little is known about the effect of PE on child weight. This paper measures that effect by instrumenting for child PE time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101508
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Mechanisms for the Association between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
Cawley, John - 2010
Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with worse child performance on tests of cognitive … activities related to child cognitive development. We find that employed women spend significantly less time reading to their … maternal employment with child cognitive development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759682
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Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood
Cawley, John - 2009
(including body mass index and obesity) controlling for a rich set of child, parent, and family characteristics. The findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766424
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity : A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
Cawley, John - 2014
related to child diet and physical activity. We find that employed women spend significantly less time cooking, eating with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751744
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Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Cawley, John - 2014
Several recent surveys have asked Americans whether they support policies to reduce childhood obesity. There is reason for skepticism of such surveys because people are not confronted with the tax costs of such policies when they are asked whether they support them. This paper uses contingent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752113