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Title: The Effects of Timing and Duration of Adolescent and Early Adulthood Obesity on College Enrollment and Completion
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1. Milesi, Carolina
Bittmann, Russell
The Effects of Timing and Duration of Adolescent and Early Adulthood Obesity on College Enrollment and Completion
Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Body Mass Index (BMI); College Degree; College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; Obesity

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We estimate the effects of current obesity status as well as of obesity duration on the probabilities of entering college and completing a bachelor’s degree for U.S. youth. We conjecture that the relatively well-established effects of obesity at one point in time are just the tip of the iceberg and that they vastly underplay the real effects of obesity that are mostly driven by the timing of onset and duration of obesity thus implying cumulative effects. We discuss the implications of these results: given past growing rates of obesity prevalence and progressively earlier onset of obesity among the U.S. youth, the estimates we obtain have ominous consequences for future educational success of all U.S. youth and particularly for females and racial and ethnic minorities.
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Milesi, Carolina and Russell Bittmann. "The Effects of Timing and Duration of Adolescent and Early Adulthood Obesity on College Enrollment and Completion." Presented: New Orleans LA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2013.