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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276697
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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265952
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Does High School Size Affect Rates of Risky Health Behaviors and Poor Mental Health Among Low-Income Teenagers? Evidence from New York City
Hong, Kai; Fatima, Syeda Sana; Glied, Sherry; Stiefel, … - 2022
There is increasing concern about risky behaviors and poor mental health among school-aged youth. A critical factor in … youth well-being is school attendance. This study evaluates how school organization and structure affect health outcomes by … examining the impacts of a popular urban high school reform -- “small schools” -- on youth risky behaviors and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104684
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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528667
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257592
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260064
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The relationship between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and preschool obesity
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal origins hypothesis posits that the intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449098
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China : Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Nie, Peng - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057035
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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes
Averett, Susan L. - 2015
siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022648
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Quantifying Socioeconomic Inequality in Childhood Obesity
Laugwitz, Justus; Mitchell, Mark; Valdivieso Massa, Patricio - 2021
We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they have an obese parent. Irrespective of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242447