| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16673 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16673 |
| Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous | |
| Patricia M. Anderson; Kristin F. Butcher; Elizabeth U. Cascio; Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-01-06 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with academic outcomes, school exposure is related to unobserved determinants of weight outcomes because some families choose to have their child start school late (or early). If one does not account for this endogeneity, it appears that an additional year of school exposure results in a greater BMI and a higher probability of being overweight or obese. When actual exposure is instrumented with expected exposure based on school starting dates and birthday, the significant positive effects disappear, and most point estimates become negative and insignificant. However, for children not eating the school lunch, there is a significant negative effect on the probability of being overweight. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16673 |
| 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/574348 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Patricia M. Anderson,Kristin F. Butcher,Elizabeth U. Cascio,et al. Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous. 2011. |
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