The incidence of young Latino children obesity is a public health concern. Among 5-year-olds, 16% of Latinos are obese … compared with 10% of whites. Obesity disparities between non-Latino white and Latino children increase significantly with age …, and TV watching for explaining obesity disparities between 5-year-old white and Latino children. Also, the long …

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 parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …

applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating … in both waves in 16 regions of eight European countries. Peers are defined as same-sex children in the same school and … misperceptions of their own children's weight goes hand in hand with fatter peer groups, supporting the notion that in making such …

In this paper we examine the effect of dollar stores on children's Body Mass Index (BMI). We use a dataset compiled by … the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement that reflects a BMI screening program for public school children in the state …

employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's outcomes. A large literature establishes that mother's pre …-pregnancy obesity is correlated with obesity in her children. However, previous research is largely based on comparing individuals … both within-family comparisons and an instrumental variable approach on a sample of 4435 children to identify the effect of …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …