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Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity : Is Nurture Trumping Nature?
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2007
Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465167
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Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress : Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2011
This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may affect children's rate of overweight. Schools facing increased pressures to produce academic outcomes may reallocate their efforts in ways that have unintended consequences for children's health. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461786
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Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous
Anderson, Patricia M. - 2011
In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461984