pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching … months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated …

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and …

This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in … Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic … the data, transitions into and out of obesity are examined, with higher rates of transition into obesity observed for …

This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data … education, is employed. In addition, the depth and severity of obesity are examined as well as the incidence. Finally, the use … of two waves of longitudinal data permits the analysis of the persistence of obesity. Results show that overall childhood …

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … of overweight and obesity. Analysis is carried out by gender and by maternal education. In general, the degree of … mobility appears to be relatively limited although it is greater than for the mothers of the children over the same time period …

Sequence and cluster analysis is applied to measures of body mass index for mothers and children for four waves of the … cluster analysis is then applied. Distinct clusterings are found for both mothers and children and multinomial logit models … children. …