| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w8770 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 8770 |
| Maternal Employment and Overweight Children | |
| Patricia M. Anderson; Kristin F. Butcher; Phillip B. Levine | |
| 发表日期 | 2002-02-07 |
| 出版年 | 2002 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates whether children are more or less likely to be overweight if their mothers work. The prevalence of both overweight children and working mothers has risen dramatically over the past few decades, although these parallel trends may be coincidental. The goal of this paper is to help determine whether a causal relationship exists between maternal employment and childhood overweight. To accomplish this, we mainly utilize matched mother/child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and employ three main econometric techniques, probit models, sibling difference models, and instrumental variables models in this analysis. Our results indicate that a child is more likely to be overweight if his/her mother worked more intensively (in the form of greater hours per week) over the child's life. This effect is particularly evident for children of white mothers, of mothers with more education, and of mothers with a high income level. Applying our estimates to the trend towards greater maternal employment indicates that the increased hours worked per week among mothers between 1975 and 1999 led to about a 0.4 to 0.7 percentage point increase in overweight children, which represents a relatively small share of the overall increase. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8770 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566377 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Patricia M. Anderson,Kristin F. Butcher,Phillip B. Levine. Maternal Employment and Overweight Children. 2002. |
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