groups and, within these groups, to their women and children. The book’s tenor is analytical and based upon a rigorous …

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 …

health of children receives particular interest because of its potential long-run implications on adult outcomes such as … representative data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The empirical results indicate that children … from low-income households have worse health on average, with diet-related lifestyle factors also playing a role. Children …