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Title: The Interactive Role of SNAP Participation and Residential Neighborhood in Childhood Obesity
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Vartanian, Thomas P. Houser, Linda |
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The Interactive Role of SNAP Participation and Residential Neighborhood in Childhood Obesity Journal of Children and Poverty 26,2 (2020): 167-189. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10796126.2020.1826246 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company ==> Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Neighborhood Effects; Obesity; Siblings; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Nationally representative studies of childhood obesity have examined the roles played by neighborhood conditions and by SNAP use, but not the effects of these factors together or in interaction. We used restricted, geocoded data from the 1986-2012 Child and Young Adult sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth with sibling fixed effects models to explore the effects of time receiving SNAP within disadvantaged neighborhoods on child obesity. Time participating in SNAP during ages 2-8 and ages 14-18 was associated with a lower proportion of time obese for children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, to an increasing degree as the level of neighborhood advantage declined. Given that most individuals who spend an extended period of time using SNAP live in the least advantaged neighborhoods, these results suggest that SNAP participation during these childhood years may help to reduce proportion of time obese as a child. Overall, results of this investigation suggest that participation in SNAP may have protective effects for children living in low-income households within disadvantaged neighborhoods. |
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Vartanian, Thomas P. and Linda Houser. "The Interactive Role of SNAP Participation and Residential Neighborhood in Childhood Obesity." Journal of Children and Poverty 26,2 (2020): 167-189.
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