| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23376 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23376 |
| Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility | |
| Charles Courtemanche; Rusty Tchernis; Xilin Zhou | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-05-08 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling’s school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers’ work hours increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers’ spouses’ work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at kindergarten eligibility. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents’ work hours lead to larger increases in children’s BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified in previous studies. We find no evidence that the impacts of maternal and paternal work are different. Subsample analyses find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and mother’s marital status. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23376 |
| 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/581050 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles Courtemanche,Rusty Tchernis,Xilin Zhou. Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility. 2017. |
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