educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …