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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286901
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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516883
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118542
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro - 2012
and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s … force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor … increased labor force participation can account for at most 19% of the observed change in obesity prevalence over our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107835
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Parental Work Hours in Childhood Obesity : Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957106
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Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity : Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles - 2017
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957470
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Parental work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin - 2017
This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647540
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Rubble women: The long-term effects of postwar reconstruction on female labor market outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about forty percent of the total housing stock nationwide. With a large fraction of the male population gone, the reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282344
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The effect of children on female labor force participation in urban Iran
Azimi, Ebrahim - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-11
This paper estimates the effect of having children on labor force participation of mothers in urban Iranian areas. I exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility. Using information from the Iranian Household Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429955