@inbook{aba64d710c204d1a82294db7789b281b,
title = "Child care choices and childhood obesity",
abstract = "Over the past three decades, the U.S. economy experienced a sharp increase in the labor-force participation of women, causing a similar increase in the demand for non-parental child care. Concurrent with these developments has been a dramatic rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity, prompting the question as to what extent the increase in child-care utilization is responsible for the growth in obesity. This chapter examines the impact of various childcare arrangements on school-age children's weight outcomes using panel data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). An advantage of the ECLS-K for our purposes is that it tracks children's child-care arrangements between Kindergarten and the 5th grade. Our fixed-effects' results suggest that non-parental child-care arrangements are not strongly associated with children's weight outcomes. Our findings are robust to numerous sensitivity and subgroup analyses.",
keywords = "Child care, Childhood, Obesity",
author = "Resul, {Cesur R.} and Chris Herbst and Erdal Tekin",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1108/S0573-8555(2010)0000290006",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780857241559",
series = "Contributions to Economic Analysis",
pages = "37--62",
editor = "Daniel Slottje and Rusty Tchernis",
booktitle = "Current Issues in Health Economics",
}