This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data … (including body mass index and obesity) controlling for a rich set of child, parent, and family characteristics. The findings … indicate that, among boys, obesity is associated with reduced verbal skills, social skills, motor skills, and activities of …

In this paper empirical evidence is presented on the determinants of obesity in youth in the U.S., with particular … emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study …Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals …

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 …

Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity. This … their children, and playing with their children, and are more likely to purchase prepared foods. We find suggestive evidence … the association of maternal employment with childhood obesity …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

Obesity rates in the U.S. have doubled since 1980. Given the medical, social, and financial costs of obesity, a large … year-long worksite health promotion program that offered financial rewards for weight loss. The intervention varied by …

.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses …, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find … little difference in maternal health behaviors associated with state-level EITC. In contrast, results for key infant health …

, weight will be related to prices. However, another potentially important reason for rising obesity is that food producers … waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys are used to investigate predictions of the dual …