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 …

This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data …

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … the longitudinal Growing Up in Ireland dataset. Particular attention is paid to transitions across the key BMI thresholds … mobility appears to be relatively limited although it is greater than for the mothers of the children over the same time period …

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

to a lower BMI, but have not been the subject of extensive research, such as parents packing their children’s lunch to …

Sequence and cluster analysis is applied to measures of body mass index for mothers and children for four waves of the … Growing up in Ireland longitudinal data set. Optimal matching analysis is used to construct a dissimilarity matrix to which … cluster analysis is then applied. Distinct clusterings are found for both mothers and children and multinomial logit models …