Maternal employment and overweight children

This paper seeks to determine whether a causal relationship exists between maternal employment and childhood weight problems. We use matched mother–child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and employ econometric techniques to control for observable and unobservable difference...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of health economics 2003-05, Vol.22 (3), p.477-504
Hauptverfasser:	Anderson, Patricia M, Butcher, Kristin F, Levine, Phillip B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Body Mass Index Causality Child Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Child, Preschool Childhood obesity Children & youth Economics Employment Employment - economics Employment - statistics & numerical data Female Health Health administration Health care Health economics Humans Incidence Longitudinal Studies Male Maternal employment Medicine Models, Econometric Mothers Mothers - education Mothers - statistics & numerical data Nutrition Surveys Obese children Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - ethnology Overweight Parent-child relations Probability Social Class Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomic status Statistical analysis Studies United States - epidemiology USA Women's employment Women, Working - education Women, Working - statistics & numerical data Working mothers
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