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Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter? Maternal Education and BMI
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Benson, Rebecca Irene |
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Like Mother, Like Daughter? Maternal Education and BMI Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); College Graduates; High School Completion/Graduates; Mothers and Daughters; Mothers, Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Adults with highly educated parents tend to have lower BMI than their peers with less highly educated parents, but selection and causation are both plausible explanations. I estimate the causal effect by using mothers' BMI as a counterfactual for the BMI of their daughters using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY79 Young Adults. I fit multilevel models of observations nested within daughters nested within mothers, using daughters' BMI and the difference between mothers' and daughters' BMI at the same age as dependent variables. Daughters of college graduates have lower BMI than daughters of high school graduates, but there is no difference in their departure from their mothers' BMI. Daughters of high school non-graduates have the same BMI as the daughters of high school graduates but exceed their mothers' BMI less. These findings suggest the relationship between parental education and BMI is due to selection rather than causal effects of education. |
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Benson, Rebecca Irene. "Like Mother, Like Daughter? Maternal Education and BMI." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |