Neighborhood Context, Poverty, and Urban Children's Outdoor Play

Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Sara McLanahan
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Rachel Tolbert Kimbro: Rice University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn: Columbia University
Sara McLanahan: Princeton University

No 1226, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: Although research consistently demonstrates a link between neighborhood conditions and physical activity for adults and adolescents, less is known about residential context and young children?s physical activity. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N=2,210), we explore whether outdoor play and television watching are associated with children?s body mass indexes (BMIs) at age five; and whether subjective and objective neighborhood measures are associated with children?s outdoor play and television watching. Hours of outdoor play and television viewing are associated with BMI. Higher maternal perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy are associated with more hours of outdoor play, fewer hours of television viewing, and more trips to a park or playground. In addition, we find that neighborhood physical disorder is associated with more outdoor play and more television watching. Finally, we find that children living in public housing have one-third more outdoor play time than other children.

Keywords: residential context; physical activity; young children; body mass indexes; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; television viewing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 D19 D63 I00 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04
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