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  • Childhood obesity and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia

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    Author(s)
    Nghiem, Son
    Khanam, Rasheda
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    Nghiem, Son H.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    This article examines the dynamic nature of human capital formation in the context of childhood obesity and the association of household income and childhood obesity in Australia using the first five waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Our results show a strong evidence of dynamic nature of child obesity: the lag obesity is a significant and robust predictor of obesity in the current period. We also found that the main channel for childhood obesity is inter-generational trait: the probability of obesity in children born to an obese mother or father is 15% higher than that of other children. Other important ...
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    This article examines the dynamic nature of human capital formation in the context of childhood obesity and the association of household income and childhood obesity in Australia using the first five waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Our results show a strong evidence of dynamic nature of child obesity: the lag obesity is a significant and robust predictor of obesity in the current period. We also found that the main channel for childhood obesity is inter-generational trait: the probability of obesity in children born to an obese mother or father is 15% higher than that of other children. Other important determinants are lifestyle factors, including the consumption of drinks with a high sugar content and the amount of time watching TV. Income becomes an insignificant determinant of childhood obesity once we control for unobserved individual heterogeneity.
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    Journal Title
    Applied Economics
    Volume
    48
    Issue
    50
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1164827
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Applied Economics on 30 Mar 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1164827
    Subject
    Applied economics
    Health economics
    Econometrics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/373328
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