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Author: Liu, Echu
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Liu, Echu |
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Maternal Full-time Employment and Childhood Obesity Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2006. DAI-A 68/03, Sep 2007 Also: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1299816281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3959&RQT=309&VName=PQD Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Maternal Employment; Obesity; Propensity Scores; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation estimates the average treatment effects of a mother's full-time employment on children's body mass index (BMI) and likelihood of becoming overweight. The matched mother-child data from the 2000 wave of the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) are used. In the first part of the dissertation, the econometric methods correcting the bias from "selection on observables," including control function and matching based on propensity score, are applied to perform the estimation. In the second part, the econometric methods correcting the bias from "selection on unobservables," including maximum likelihood and semiparametric approaches, are used to conduct the estimation. It is concluded that, on average, the group of children with full-time working mothers have significantly higher BMI and a greater likelihood of becoming overweight. |
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Liu, Echu. Maternal Full-time Employment and Childhood Obesity. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2006. DAI-A 68/03, Sep 2007. |
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Liu, Echu Hsiao, Cheng Matsumoto, Tomoya Chou, Shin-Yi |
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Maternal Full-Time Employment and Overweight Children: Parametric, Semi-Parametric, and Non-Parametric Assessment Journal of Econometrics 152,1 (September 2009): 61-69. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304407609000542 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Birthweight; Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Children; Fathers, Presence; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Education; Obesity; Weight We use the matched mother-child data from the 2000 wave of the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) to assess the impact of full-time working mothers on children's body mass index (BMI) and the likelihood of becoming overweight. Parametric, semi-parametric and non-parametric methods are employed to correct the bias of selection on observables and unobservables. Pros and cons of various methods are discussed and specification tests are conducted. In general, we find that a mother's full-time employment does have some impact on her children's BMI and likelihood of becoming overweight across models and inference procedures. [Copyright 2009 Elsevier] Copyright of Journal of Econometrics is the property of Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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Liu, Echu, Cheng Hsiao, Tomoya Matsumoto and Shin-Yi Chou. "Maternal Full-Time Employment and Overweight Children: Parametric, Semi-Parametric, and Non-Parametric Assessment." Journal of Econometrics 152,1 (September 2009): 61-69.
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