Maternal employment and overweight children
Maternal employment and overweight children
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DOI：
10.1016/s0167-6296(03)00022-5
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发表时间：
2003-05-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Levine, PB
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作者：
Anderson, PM;Butcher, KF;Levine, PB
本文旨在确定是否存在因果关系之间的母亲就业和儿童体重问题。我们使用来自全国青年纵向调查（NLSY）的匹配母子数据，并采用计量经济学技术来控制可能影响儿童体重和母亲工作模式的个人和家庭之间的可观察和不可观察差异。我们的研究结果表明，如果一个孩子的母亲在孩子的一生中每周工作更多的时间，那么他/她的孩子更有可能超重。分组分析表明，社会经济地位较高的母亲的工作强度对其子女的超重状况特别有害。(C)2003 Elsevier Science B. V.保留所有权利。
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. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.