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Disability and Disadvantage: a Study of a Cohort of Australian Youth

Yu, Peng - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) (2010) 3, pp. 13-13

.g., school achievement), and present circumstances (e.g., participation in education and employment) as well as aspirations and …

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity: A search for mechanisms in time use data

Cawley, John; Liu, Feng - In: Economics & Human Biology 10 (2012) 4, pp. 352-364

A substantial body of research documents that maternal employment is associated with childhood obesity. This paper … explores possible mechanisms for that correlation in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that maternal employment is … findings suggest plausible mechanisms for the association between maternal employment and childhood obesity. …

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Are the Kids All Right? Intergenerational Mobility and Child Well-being in Canada

Corak, Miles - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Miles Corak provides a useful overview of the state of knowledge on the issue of child poverty and most importantly reveals the complexity of the factors at play and the important gaps in our understanding of the underlying causes and effects. Corak finds that, except for those...

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Childhood obesity and human capital accumulation

Palermo, Tia M.; Dowd, Jennifer B. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 11, pp. 1989-1998

The prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled in the United States over the last 25 years, and in addition to increased risks of many chronic diseases, obesity may also be linked to lower skill attainment, poor social competency, and poorer labor outcomes. Any causal links between obesity and...

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