) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children s health outcomes disappears if we …

intrauterine environment might have lasting effects on children's outcomes. A large literature establishes that mother's pre …-pregnancy obesity is correlated with obesity in her children. However, previous research is largely based on comparing individuals … both within-family comparisons and an instrumental variable approach on a sample of 4435 children to identify the effect of …

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 … misperceptions of their own children's weight goes hand in hand with fatter peer groups, supporting the notion that in making such …

As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care … term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …-kindergarten-age on weight problems and gross motor skills of children aged five to nine. This dataset has the advantage to provide …