PMID- 12683963

OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030610
LR - 20091119
IS - 0167-6296 (Print)
IS - 0167-6296 (Linking)
VI - 22
IP - 3
DP - 2003 May
TI - Maternal employment and overweight children.
PG - 477-504
AB - This paper seeks to determine whether a causal relationship exists between
maternal
employment and childhood weight problems. We use matched mother-child data
from the
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and employ econometric
techniques to
control for observable and unobservable differences across individuals and
families
that may influence both children's weight and their mothers' work patterns.
Our
results indicate that a child is more likely to be overweight if his/her
mother
worked more hours per week over the child's life. Analyses by subgroups show
that it
is higher socioeconomic status mothers whose work intensity is particularly
deleterious for their children's overweight status.
FAU - Anderson, Patricia M
AU - Anderson PM
AD - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-3514, USA.
patricia.m.anderson@dartmouth.edu
FAU - Butcher, Kristin F
AU - Butcher KF
FAU - Levine, Phillip B
AU - Levine PB
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
PL - Netherlands
TA - J Health Econ
JT - Journal of health economics
JID - 8410622
SB - H
MH - Body Mass Index
MH - Causality
MH - Child
MH - Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH - Child, Preschool
MH - Employment/*economics/*statistics & numerical data
MH - Female
MH - Humans
MH - Incidence
MH - Longitudinal Studies
MH - Male
MH - Models, Econometric
MH - Mothers/education/*statistics & numerical data
MH - Nutrition Surveys
MH - Obesity/*epidemiology/ethnology
MH - Probability
MH - *Social Class
MH - Socioeconomic Factors
MH - United States/epidemiology
MH - Women, Working/education/*statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2003/04/10 05:00
MHDA- 2003/06/11 05:00
CRDT- 2003/04/10 05:00
PHST- 2003/04/10 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/06/11 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/04/10 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S0167-6296(03)00022-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/S0167-6296(03)00022-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO - J Health Econ. 2003 May;22(3):477-504. doi: 10.1016/S0167-6296(03)00022-5.