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Title: Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Household Income on Childhood Weight
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Chia, Yee Fei |
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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. |
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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. |