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Chapter 3 Child Care Choices and Childhood Obesity

In: Current Issues in Health Economics

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  • Resul Cesur
  • Chris M. Herbst
  • Erdal Tekin

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Over the past three decades, the U.S. economy experienced a sharp increase in the labor-force participation of women, causing a similar increase in the demand for non-parental child care. Concurrent with these developments has been a dramatic rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity, prompting the question as to what extent the increase in child-care utilization is responsible for the growth in obesity. This chapter examines the impact of various child-care arrangements on school-age children's weight outcomes using panel data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). An advantage of the ECLS-K for our purposes is that it tracks children's child-care arrangements between Kindergarten and the 5th grade. Our fixed-effects' results suggest that non-parental child-care arrangements are not strongly associated with children's weight outcomes. Our findings are robust to numerous sensitivity and subgroup analyses.

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  • Resul Cesur & Chris M. Herbst & Erdal Tekin, 2010. "Chapter 3 Child Care Choices and Childhood Obesity," Contributions to Economic Analysis, in: Current Issues in Health Economics, pages 37-62, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ceazzz:s0573-8555(2010)0000290006
    DOI: 10.1108/S0573-8555(2010)0000290006
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