Parental Time and Children's Obesity Measures

Wen You, George C. Davis, Nayga, Rodolfo M., and Alex McIntosh

No 19386, 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: We develop a theoretical model that includes household production and parental time allocation to explore the effects of parental time allocation on children's obesity-related measures. We utilize a unique primary household survey dataset that has health measures and time diary records on each parent and a child in the household.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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