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Title: Maternal Work and Child Overweight and Obesity: The Importance of Timing
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Miller, Daniel P. |
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Maternal Work and Child Overweight and Obesity: The Importance of Timing Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32,2 (June 2011): 204-218. Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-010-9244-x Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; Television Viewing; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous studies have found that increased work by mothers results in an increased likelihood that children are obese. Building upon this work, this study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement to investigate whether the timing of maternal work matters to this relationship. Fixed effects models found that maternal work at ages 9–11 and 12–14 was related to an increased rate of overweight during the same periods, while work at ages 6–8 resulted in a decreased rate of obesity in the same period and later at ages 9–11, a novel finding. Subgroup analyses found that effects were confined to families who were relatively low income and to children who grew up with single mothers. |
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Miller, Daniel P. "Maternal Work and Child Overweight and Obesity: The Importance of Timing." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 32,2 (June 2011): 204-218.
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