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1.	Chia, Yee Fei
1.	Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Household Income on Childhood Weight Working Paper No. 4. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, June 2009. Also: http://www.csuohio.edu/class/economics/WorkingPapers/Abstract.html#4 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Body Mass Index (BMI); Child Health; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Family Income; Household Income; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Mothers, Health; Obesity; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the impact of household income on childhood weight status for children in the United States using matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Instrumental variable (IV) models, household fixed effects (FE) models and household fixed effects IV (FEIV) models are estimated in order to control for causality. The results suggest that although the prevalence of childhood obesity is higher in low-income families in the sample, household income might be acting primarily as a proxy for other unobserved characteristics that determine the child’s weight status rather having a major direct causative role in determining the child’s weight status.
	Bibliography Citation Chia, Yee Fei. "Dollars and Pounds: The Impact of Household Income on Childhood Weight." Working Paper No. 4. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, June 2009.

2.	Chia, Yee Fei
2.	Weighty Problems: An Examination of Childhood Weight and School Outcomes Working Paper No. 1. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, January 2009. Also: http://www.csuohio.edu/class/economics/WorkingPapers/Abstract.html#1 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Academic Development; Body Mass Index (BMI); Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Child Health; Obesity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the effects of childhood overweight and obesity on the child’s school-related outcomes for children in Canada and the U.S. using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) master files and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) children files respectively. It also attempts to examine pathways that might mediate the relationships between the child’s weight and schooling outcomes. The results obtained suggest that there potentially exist some differences between Canada and the U.S. in terms of how the child’s weight affects his or her school performance.
	Bibliography Citation Chia, Yee Fei. "Weighty Problems: An Examination of Childhood Weight and School Outcomes." Working Paper No. 1. Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, January 2009.

3.	Kosteas, Vasilios D.
3.	Effect of Exercise on Earnings: Evidence from the NLSY Working Paper, Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, September 20, 2010. Also: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1612384 Forthcoming in Journal of Labor Research. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); Earnings; Exercise; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Obesity; Physical Activity (see also Exercise); Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper investigates whether engaging in regular exercise leads to higher earnings in the labor market. While there has been a recent surge of interest by economists on the issue of obesity, relatively little attention has been given to the economic effects of regular physical activity apart from its impact on body composition. I find that regular exercise yields a six to nine percent wage increase. The results also show that while even moderate exercise yields a positive earnings effect, frequent exercise generates an even larger impact. These findings are fairly robust to a variety of estimation techniques.
	Bibliography Citation Kosteas, Vasilios D. "Effect of Exercise on Earnings: Evidence from the NLSY." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, September 20, 2010.

4.	Kosteas, Vasilios D.
4.	High School Clubs Participation and Earnings Working Paper, Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, 2010 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Cleveland State University Keyword(s): Earnings; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; High School; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, Instrumental Variables; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper estimates the effect of participation in high school extracurricular activities on future earnings, making three important contributions to the existing literature: 1) it compares the earnings effects of participation in different types of clubs; 2) it investigates whether the effect of clubs participation is constant over time; and 3) it employs a new estimation strategy in order to identify a causal link between clubs participation and wages. Using the NLSY79 dataset, I find that participation in high school clubs leads to higher future earnings. While previous studies have focused on athletics, I show that participation in both athletics and academic clubs have positive earnings effects. These results are robust to various estimation routines and robustness checks.
	Bibliography Citation Kosteas, Vasilios D. "High School Clubs Participation and Earnings." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Cleveland State University, 2010.

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