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Title: Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
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Courtemanche, Charles Tchernis, Rusty Zhou, Xilin |
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Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility Journal of Human Capital 13,4 (Winter 2019): 553-584. Also: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705609 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Childhood; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Obesity; Siblings; Work Hours/Schedule This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of maternal work on the weight outcomes of older children. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours do not appear to be responsive. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that mothers' work hours lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified in previous studies. Subsample analyses find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and mother's marital status. |
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Courtemanche, Charles, Rusty Tchernis and Xilin Zhou. "Maternal Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility." Journal of Human Capital 13,4 (Winter 2019): 553-584.
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