Social Factors Associated with Adolescent Obesity

Baum, Cynthia G.; Forehand, Rex

doi:10.1093/jpepsy/9.3.293

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“…Cawley 2004;Cawley & Danziger 2005;Conley & Glauber 2006;Brunello & d'Hombres 2007). 4,5 For policy purposes, knowledge about the long-run economic 1 For studies showing an association between body size and adverse outcomes during childhood and adolescence, see for instance Baum and Forehand (1984), Cramer and Steinwert (1998), Pearce et al (2002), Janssen et al (2004), and Cawley and Spiess (2008). 2 Overweight and obese youth are also more likely to become obese adults (Whitaker et al 1997).…”

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Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings

2014

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Despite the widely described consequences of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity the economics literature to date has almost exclusively focused on the relationship between body size and earnings among adults. We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we show for the first time that there is a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight and obese as a teenager. Second, we show that this result can be replicated using data from the USA and the UK. Third, we show a strikingly strong within-family relationship between body size, on the one hand, and cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills, on the other hand. Fourth, we show that a large part of the estimated body size penalty reflects lower skill acquisition among overweight and obese teenagers. All of these results hint at the importance of policy combating early life obesity in order to reduce healthcare expenditures as well as poverty and inequalities later in life.

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Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings

2014

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“…Obese children are more likely to experience social stress than are their peers (Baum and Forehand, 1984;Bullen and Mayer, 1963;Strausse, Smith, Frame and Forehand, 1985;White, 1983). Children as young as three assign negative traits such as naughty and lazy to overweight children and positive traits such as smart, neat, and generous to normal weight children (White, 1983).…”

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Teenage Obesity: An Academic Issue

Morrill

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Shreeve

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International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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“…Farhat and colleagues found that obese adolescent females, ages 11-17, were more likely to be bullied as well as be the perpetrators of bullying (Farhat, Iannotti, & Simmons-Morton, 2010). Overall however, obese children are more likely to be the victims of bullying (Baum & Forehand, 1984;Janssen et al, 2004;Lumeng et al, 2010;Pearce, Boergers, & Prinstein, 2002). Obese younger children (ages 8-11) were found to be almost two times more likely to be bullied than their non-obese counterparts.…”

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The Effect of Maternal Beliefs and Behavior on the Body Weight Status of Preschool-aged Children

Boucher¹

2014

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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Social Factors Associated with Adolescent Obesity

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Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings

Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings

Teenage Obesity: An Academic Issue

The Effect of Maternal Beliefs and Behavior on the Body Weight Status of Preschool-aged Children

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