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 …Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

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 …Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

Obesity, as a health and social problem with rising prevalence and soaring economic cost, is increasingly drawing … obesity, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is fragile. Using the health capital development theory, this study … prevalence of obesity during teenage years. The main finding was that a 1% rise in the in-hospital breastfeeding initiation rate …

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 …Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …

child obesity according to the estimation for working mothers. If they depend on relative care, it stimulates children to …A substantial body of literature suggests that maternal employment stimulates child obesity. This study re-examines the … existing relations and explores the role of alternative care on health status of working women’s children using Panel Study on …

increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose … diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children of working mothers may spend more time in the care of others, whose …Childhood obesity has been rising steadily in most parts of the world. Popular speculation attributes some of that …

peer health and also in reactivity to peer influence. This paper estimates heterogeneity in the peer effects of obesity … suggest that policies that reduce obesity could simultaneously widen some existing health disparities due to the …Children form social ties along dimensions of gender and race/ethnicity, and thus may differ greatly in exposure to …