Effects of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Childhood Obesity

Taeyang Kim

Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje, 2014, vol. 37, issue 01

Abstract: Childhood obesity has recently become a more global issue. However, there are not many studies to analyze the effects of maternal factors on childhood obesity. The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of mother’s labor force participation on children’s obesity using the 5th KNHNES (Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) conducted in 2010 and 2011. Since a child’s physical change is greater than an adult’s, this study used the BMI z-score, which is standardized according to a child’s age and gender. In order to reduce the problems of selection bias, both PSM (propensity score matching) and CEM (coarsened exact matching) are used to analyze the effect of maternal factors on children’s obesity. Our result shows that mother’s labor force participation is positively related to children’s obesity. Implications of this result for public health policy are discussed.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.330621

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