Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity: Role of Education and Income

Zhiwei Dong, Liping Wu, Yang Chen, Oleksii Lyulyov and Tetyana Pimonenko ()
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Zhiwei Dong: School of Sports Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Liping Wu: College of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 310045, China
Yang Chen: School of Economics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Tetyana Pimonenko: Department of Management, Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-13

Abstract: Based on the sixth round of the 2018 Chinese Household Income Project family income survey (CHIP) data, this study made use of the OLS estimation and transfer matrix method to measure and test the problem of obesity intergenerational transmission, analyze whether there is obesity intergenerational transmission as well as between urban and rural areas, gender, and the parental education level and income level on the suppression of the obesity intergenerational transmission effect. The empirical results draw the following main conclusions: obesity intergenerational transmission in Chinese families, the degree of parental obesity has a significant positive impact on the degree of offspring obesity; the higher the degree of parental obesity, the more it can promote the degree of obesity in the offspring. Moreover, the degree of obesity intergenerational transmission is heterogeneous in urban and rural areas and gender. At the same time, the degree of rural obesity intergenerational transmission is higher than that of urban areas, and the degree of male obesity intergenerational transmission is higher than that of women.

Keywords: income; income inequality; education; obesity; health outcome (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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