birth on and later healthcare utilisation and costs in children aged about 10 years based on two birth cohort studies: the …

-effects models, this study examined the connection between maternal work hours and child overweight or obesity. Following children in … developmentally dynamic relationship. Among preschool children (ages 2 to 5), we found lower likelihood of child overweight and … hours (1-24, 25-34) or longer hours (41 or more) was both associated with increases in child overweight and obesity. These …

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and …

children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

related to a decline in the likelihood of being overweight. Furthermore, birth of younger siblings at higher parities leads to … a significant drop in the likelihood of obesity (but may also lead to an increase in the child's probability of being …