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Effects of family structure and parental resources on child body weight.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effects of family structure and parental resources on child body weight./
Author:	Bao, Yanjun.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2589.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3266999
ISBN:	9780549057833

Effects of family structure and parental resources on child body weight.
Bao, Yanjun.

Effects of family structure and parental resources on child body weight. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2589.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007.

The dissertation examines the family structure effects on child body weight. It is motivated by the observation of two rising trends in child obesity and in children's exposure to disrupted and/or single-mother families over the last three decades. For the empirical analysis, the study draws on a panel of children aged 2-17 years between 1986 and 2002 in the merged mother-child files of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The family structure is measured both contemporaneously by mothers' marital structure and cumulatively as the number of years or the proportion of children's lifetime during which mothers are married. The study uses first-difference and random-effects estimation methods to account for unobserved heterogeneity.

ISBN: 9780549057833Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

Effects of family structure and parental resources on child body weight.
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520 $a The dissertation examines the family structure effects on child body weight. It is motivated by the observation of two rising trends in child obesity and in children's exposure to disrupted and/or single-mother families over the last three decades. For the empirical analysis, the study draws on a panel of children aged 2-17 years between 1986 and 2002 in the merged mother-child files of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The family structure is measured both contemporaneously by mothers' marital structure and cumulatively as the number of years or the proportion of children's lifetime during which mothers are married. The study uses first-difference and random-effects estimation methods to account for unobserved heterogeneity.
520 $a The study finds living with married mothers protects children against higher BMI and probabilities of obesity. The protective effects are larger as mothers are married for an increased number of years. Interestingly, the protective effect of living with married mothers is found for girls but not boys, for non-Hispanic black children but not non-Hispanic white children or Hispanic children. The findings persist after family incomes and mothers' work characteristics are accounted for as well as in first-difference estimations that account for the unobserved heterogeneity. The estimated effects are robust to the inclusion of children's daily hours of TV watching and neighborhood characteristics. By age group, I find that family structure significantly affects weight outcomes for children aged 7-12 but not for preschool-aged children or older teens.
520 $a In addition, measuring child weight status as a four-category ordinal outcome and assuming a first-order Markov process in the weight states transitions, I estimates a dynamic model using the random effects generalized ordered probit estimator. Living with married mothers increases children's probabilities of having a healthy weight and protects them against not only obesity, but underweight as well. Cumulative effects are also found.
520 $a Findings indicate the importance of reducing single-mother families and of a stable family environment in preventing childhood obesity. Findings of the persistence in weight status call for the need to start the obesity prevention early on in children's lives.
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