全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15007
来源ID	Working Paper 15007
	Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
	Chris M. Herbst; Erdal Tekin
发表日期	2009-05-28
出版年	2009
语种	英语
摘要	Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals of our empirical analysis are twofold. We first utilize standard OLS and fixed effects methods to explore body mass index as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also find substantial variation in subsidy effects across the BMI distribution. In particular, child care subsidies have no effect on BMI at the lower end of the distribution, inconsistent effects in the middle of the distribution, and large effects at the top of the distribution. Our results point to the use of non-parental child care, particularly centerbased services, as the key mechanism through which subsidies influence children's weight outcomes.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15007
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/572683
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chris M. Herbst,Erdal Tekin. Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity. 2009.

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