In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age … cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with … disappear, and most point estimates become negative and insignificant. However, for children not eating the school lunch, there …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children … 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 …

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 …

This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may affect children's rate of … unintended consequences for children's health. For example, schools may cut back on recess and physical education in favor of …

There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and … advertising was associated with a 1.1% rise in children's consumption of fast food. There was no detectable link between …

. 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 …

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 in known about the origins of this persistence. In …

factors -- like neighborhood quality and the built environment -- may have on the nation's obesity crisis. This paper explores … whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood quality affect children's bodyweight outcomes, and whether racial and ethnic … differences in such perceptions may explain any of the hitherto unexplained gap in bodyweight and obesity prevalence among Whites …

effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the … lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified …

the probability of such children attending university at the age of 18; however, when both parents are college or senior … buffer the LBW shock among moderately-LBW children (as compared to very-LBW children) and full term-LBW children (as compared … to preterm-LBW children) …