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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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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar; Peralta-Alva, Adrian - Department of Economics, School of Business - 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/10009401153
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009367500
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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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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414165
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Body-weight and women's hours of work : more evidence that marriage markets matter
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2017
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664273
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Maternal Employment and Child Obesity : When Childcare Matters
Hong, Jieun - 2016
A substantial body of literature suggests that maternal employment stimulates child obesity. This study re-examines the … child obesity according to the estimation for working mothers. If they depend on relative care, it stimulates children to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129933