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1.	Balistreri, Kelly Stamper Fee, Holly R.
1.	Overweight, Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Early Adulthood Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Rising levels of obesity are a major problem in the United States. As well as affecting the early onset of disease, recent evidence suggests that obesity is associated with a loss in health related quality of life (HRQoL). The primary objective of this study is to identify the relationship between body weight and health related quality of life during young adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we utilize the "Health at 29" questions to construct physical (PCS-12) and mental (MCS-12) SF-12 measures of HQRoL. The SF-12 consists of 12 items that measure eight health domains: physical functioning, physical role limitations, general health, bodily pain, mental health, vitality, social functioning, and emotional role limitations. Multivariate linear regressions, using PCS-12 and MCS-12 as outcome variables, are conducted separately for men and women.
	Bibliography Citation Balistreri, Kelly Stamper and Holly R. Fee. "Overweight, Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Early Adulthood." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015.

2.	Fee, Holly R.
2.	Obesity and First Birth: Timing, Union Status, And Subsequent Union Formation And Dissolution Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Bowling Green State University Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Cohabitation; Family Formation; First Birth; Marital Status; Obesity; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. During the past twenty years, the United States has experienced increasing prevalence rates of obesity, especially among women of childbearing age. For adolescent girls aged 12 to 19, the obesity prevalence rate has more than doubled since 1994, and it has increased by more than 15% for women aged 20 to 39 during the same time period. Consequently, individuals of prime childbearing age are more likely to be obese than prior generations, which is likely to redefine family formation behaviors. This dissertation examines how obesity is associated with first birth, specifically timing and union status, as well as union formation and dissolution following first birth using data from the 1997-2011 rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Consistent with the physical maturation hypothesis, I found overweight and obese women experienced a first birth at younger ages compared to normal weight/underweight women. Overweight and obese women were more likely to experience a first birth than their thinner peers, but this association was weaker for minorities than for whites. Consistent with the stigma of obesity perspective, compared to normal weight/underweight women, the odds of a marital first birth were lower for obese women, but only when age a first birth was controlled. However, when economic resources were controlled, the association between obesity and union status at first birth was nonsignificant. Minority women were less likely to experience their first birth in a union, but this association somewhat varied by body weight. The odds of a marital rather than a cohabiting first birth were 68% lower for Black obese women than white normal weight/underweight women. Among women who were single at first birth, obese women had lower odds of forming a cohabiting union following a first birth than normal weight/underweight, but the association became nonsignificant once age at first birth was controlled. The association between BMI and union dissolution following first birth was nonsignificant. Taken as a whole, these findings highlight the disadvantages obese women face in family formation experiences and how race and ethnicity is an important factor to understanding such experiences.
	Bibliography Citation Fee, Holly R. Obesity and First Birth: Timing, Union Status, And Subsequent Union Formation And Dissolution. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, 2019.

3.	Fee, Holly R.
3.	Obesity and Union Status at First Birth Among Women Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): First Birth; Marital Status; Obesity Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. For adolescents aged 12 to 19, the prevalence rate of obesity has more than tripled since 1980 (Fryar, Carroll, and Ogden 2012); and for adults aged 20 and older, the percentage who are obese has more than doubled in that same time period (Fryar, Carroll, and Ogden 2012). Individuals of childbearing age are now more likely to be obese than their predecessors and this trend is likely to redefine family formation behaviors. This study examines how obesity is associated with union status at first birth using national, longitudinal data from the 1997-2011 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Discrete-time logistic regression models reveal when obese women experience a first birth they are more likely to do so in a nonmarital union than marital union compared to normal weight women.
	Bibliography Citation Fee, Holly R. "Obesity and Union Status at First Birth Among Women." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.

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