Maternal employment and overweight children.

By P. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Phillip B. Levine. Journal of Health Economics, 2003

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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3. C. Baum
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Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity (2011, background): “…and Posner (1999), and Lakdawalla and Philipson (2002, 2007) suggest that increased obesity is the result of jobs becoming more sedentary; Anderson, Butcher, and Levine (2003) find evidence that maternal employment increases childhood obesity because working mothers have less time to…”
• THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF OBESITY: A SURVEY (2008, neutral): “See also Anderson et al. (2003a), Anderson and Butcher (2006a), Cawley (2006), who have surveyed causes of childhood obesity.”
• Framing the mother: childhood obesity, maternal responsibility and care (2010, background): “Some studies have found a limited link between hours of maternal employment and likelihood of childhood obesity (Anderson et al. 2003, Phipps et al. 2006); but the authors are cautious in attributing broader causal responsibility for childhood obesity to maternal employment, since patterns are…”
• Economic causes and consequences of obesity. (2005, background): “(2) and Ruhm (62) provided evidence that increases in maternal employment may account for some of the rise in childhood obesity and suggest that children of working mothers eat home-cooked meals less frequently.”
• Economics of Food Energy Density and Adolescent Body Weight (2009, neutral): “These results are not necessarily consistent with previous findings that maternal employment increases child obesity (Anderson et al. 2003; Fertig et al. 2005), but they are somewhat difficult to interpret since we are unable to condition on household income.”