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1.	Chia, Yee Fei
1.	Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Household Income on Childhood Weight Working Paper No. 4. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, June 2009. Also: http://www.csuohio.edu/class/economics/WorkingPapers/Abstract.html#4 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Household Income; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Mothers, Health; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the impact of household income on childhood weight status for children in the United States using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Instrumental variable (IV) models, household fixed effects (FE) models and household fixed effects IV (FEIV) models are estimated in order to control for causality. The results suggest that although the prevalence of childhood obesity is higher in low-income families in the sample, household income might be acting primarily as a proxy for other unobserved characteristics that determine the child’s weight status rather having a major direct causative role in determining the child’s weight status.
	Bibliography Citation Chia, Yee Fei. "Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Household Income on Childhood Weight." Working Paper No. 4. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, June 2009.

2.	Chia, Yee Fei
2.	Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Family Income on Childhood Weight Applied Economics 45,14 (2013): 1931-1941. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036846.2011.641929 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Family Income; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Obesity; Weight This article examines the impact of family income on childhood weight status for children in the United States using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY 79). Instrumental variable (IV) models, family Fixed Effects (FE) models and family Fixed Effects IV (FEIV) models are estimated in order to control for causality. The results suggest that although the prevalence of childhood obesity is higher in low-income families in the sample, family income might be acting primarily as a proxy for other unobserved characteristics that determine the child's weight status rather having a major direct causative role in determining the child's weight status. Also in: The Applied Economics of Weight and Obesity, Edited by Mark P. Taylor; Routledge, 2013, pp. 57-67.
	Bibliography Citation Chia, Yee Fei. "Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Family Income on Childhood Weight." Applied Economics 45,14 (2013): 1931-1941.

3.	Chia, Yee Fei
3.	Weighty Problems: An Examination of Childhood Weight and School Outcomes Working Paper No. 1. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, January 2009. Also: http://www.csuohio.edu/class/economics/WorkingPapers/Abstract.html#1 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Academic Development; Body Mass Index (BMI); Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Child Health; Obesity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of childhood overweight and obesity on the child’s school-related outcomes for children in Canada and the U.S. using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) master files and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) children files respectively. It also attempts to examine pathways that might mediate the relationships between the child’s weight and schooling outcomes. The results obtained suggest that there potentially exist some differences between Canada and the U.S. in terms of how the child’s weight affects his or her school performance.
	Bibliography Citation Chia, Yee Fei. "Weighty Problems: An Examination of Childhood Weight and School Outcomes." Working Paper No. 1. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, January 2009.

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