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1.	Jackson, Heide
1.	Obesity Over the Life Course: A Study of How Obesity Produces Health Disadvantage and Excess Mortality in the United States Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Disability; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Obesity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation explores the influence of obesity on U.S. population morbidity and mortality. Across three essays, I examine the relation of obesity to work disability, activity impairment, and mortality. Chapter 1 looks at how obesity in early adulthood affects work disability at young and middle ages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, I employ logistic regression to assess whether an early onset of obesity affects the likelihood of developing a work disabling condition and use event history analysis to predict the time at which that work disability occurs. Results indicate that early obesity increases the likelihood that a person will develop a work disability and uniformly increases the relative hazard of the disability occurring. The association of obesity and work disability remains robust to the inclusion of covariates and modeling the process that selects a person to become obese.
	Bibliography Citation Jackson, Heide. Obesity Over the Life Course: A Study of How Obesity Produces Health Disadvantage and Excess Mortality in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

2.	Jackson, Heide
2.	The Effect of Obesity on Disability Risk, Recurrence and Recovery, among Working Age Adults Living in the United States Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Disability; Health and Retirement Study (HRS); Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Obesity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the United States, the rising prevalence of disability among young and middle age adults is attributable, at least in part, to a rising prevalence of obesity (Finkelstein et al., 2009; Barkin et al., 2010). Obesity dramatically reduces population labor force productivity and lowers overall health. This study estimates a multi-state hazard model to assess the relationship between obesity and disability, onset, recovery, and recurrence using data made available from the Natonal Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 (NLSY 1979) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Preliminary findings suggest that obesity not only increases the likelihood that an individual will become disabled but also reduces the likelihood that an individual will recover from a disabling condition.
	Bibliography Citation Jackson, Heide. "The Effect of Obesity on Disability Risk, Recurrence and Recovery, among Working Age Adults Living in the United States." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.

3.	Jackson, Heide
3.	The Ways Weight Matters: The Intergenerational Transmission of Weight, Health and Human Capital Disadvantage Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Health; Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; High School Completion/Graduates; Human Capital; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States with implications for many aspects of child development; obesity negatively affects a child’s health, cognitive abilities, and non-cognitive traits. While an emerging literature has shown how obesity may affect a child’s skill acquisition and health, this paper will contribute to this field by showing that maternal obesity has direct consequences for child obesity, health, cognitive capacity, and non-cognitive traits as well as indirect, but nonetheless important, implications for a child’s educational attainment. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Children (1979), preliminary analysis suggests an important effect of maternal obesity on child characteristics. More surprisingly, analysis suggests that childhood obesity does not have a similar influence after controlling for maternal weight status. Results suggest an important intergenerational transfer of obesity which negatively affects child development.
	Bibliography Citation Jackson, Heide. "The Ways Weight Matters: The Intergenerational Transmission of Weight, Health and Human Capital Disadvantage." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.

4.	Jackson, Heide Palloni, Alberto
4.	Projecting the Impact of Obesity on a Cohort of School-Aged Hispanic Children Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Cognitive Ability; College Enrollment; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Educational Attainment; Ethnic Groups; High School Completion/Graduates; Hispanic Youth; Obesity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past 30 years, the prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled in the United States. Hispanics face a significantly greater risk of becoming obese; 24% of Hispanic children aged 6-11 are obese compared to 17% of the general population. Excess obesity among Hispanics could lead to two significant changes. First, given that obesity is associated with a number of chronic conditions and an increased risk of premature death, the higher prevalence of obesity among Hispanic youth may serve to undo the historic US Hispanic health and mortality advantage. Second, a disproportionate increase in obesity prevalence among Hispanics could compromise their ability to accumulate human capital. Using a number of rich, nationally representative data sources, this paper seeks to: measure trends in Hispanic obesity, ascertain the effects of obesity on human capital development, and determine how changing the projected obesity prevalence will affect human capital.
	Bibliography Citation Jackson, Heide and Alberto Palloni. "Projecting the Impact of Obesity on a Cohort of School-Aged Hispanic Children." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.

5.	Owens, Jayanti Jackson, Heide Forgues, Angela
5.	The Changing Effects of an Early Childhood Attention Deficity/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Diagnosis on Cognitive Development for Cohorts of Children Born across Three Decades Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Child Care; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Family Structure; Gender Differences; Insurance, Health; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study investigates how the effect of ADHD diagnosis on cognitive development has changed for children born in the early 2000s compared to those born in the early 1980s and whether the mechanisms linking diagnosis to cognition have changed for these birth cohorts. Using nationally-representative samples of youth surveyed in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979-Children (NLSY-C), the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten 1998 Study (ECLS-K 98), and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten 2011 (ECLS-K:2011), we employ OLS regression and matching techniques to test whether the effect of ADHD diagnosis in kindergarten or first grade on third grade cognition scores has changed across cohorts and whether the mechanisms linking ADHD diagnosis to cognition have shifted. Preliminary results indicate that the effect of ADHD diagnosis for subsequent cognition has declined across cohorts. Future analyses will explore whether and which mediating factors linking ADHD diagnosis to subsequent cognitive development have also shifted.
	Bibliography Citation Owens, Jayanti, Heide Jackson and Angela Forgues. "The Changing Effects of an Early Childhood Attention Deficity/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Diagnosis on Cognitive Development for Cohorts of Children Born across Three Decades." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015.

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