This paper analyses the socioeconomic gradient of chilidhood obesity in Ireland using the Growing Up in Ireland data … of two waves of longitudinal data permits the analysis of the persistence of obesity. Results show that overall childhood … education, is employed. In addition, the depth and severity of obesity are examined as well as the incidence. Finally, the use …

the longitudinal Growing Up in Ireland dataset. Particular attention is paid to transitions across the key BMI thresholds …This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … of overweight and obesity. Analysis is carried out by gender and by maternal education. In general, the degree of …

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

Growing up in Ireland longitudinal data set. Optimal matching analysis is used to construct a dissimilarity matrix to which …Sequence and cluster analysis is applied to measures of body mass index for mothers and children for four waves of the … cluster analysis is then applied. Distinct clusterings are found for both mothers and children and multinomial logit models …

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 …

We study the impact on young children's bodyweight of switching from means-tested to universal provision of nutritious … to high quality universal free lunches increases healthy weight prevalence and reduces obesity prevalence and BMI by the … children not eligible under means-testing, with little evidence of income or parental labour supply effects. This suggests …

.g. from elementary school to intermediate school or from intermediate school to high school. Using a longitudinal census of …

This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which … applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately 14,000 children aged two to nine participating … in both waves in 16 regions of eight European countries. Peers are defined as same-sex children in the same school and …

Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … based measures for a dataset for Ireland reveals a much stronger gradient than for the incidence based measures. It is … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …