Essays on the Economic Causes of Obesity
Chapter 2: qWorking Yourself to Death? The Relationship Between Work Hours and Obesityq. Work hours may affect obesity if reduced leisure time decreases exercise and causes substitution from meals prepared at home to fast food and pre-prepared processed food. Additional work by adults may also impact child weight by reducing parental supervision. I find that a rise in work hours increases one's weight and, to a lesser extent, the weight of one's spouse. Mothers', but not fathers', work hours affect child weight. My estimates imply that increases in labor force participation account for 6% and 10% of the growth in adult and childhood obesity in recent decades.with a quadratic time trend. Chou, Grossman, and Saffer (2002 and 2004) employed a similar solution to the problem of multicollinearity in regressions with state-level prices as explanatory variables. The regression equation becomes Wiaanbsp;...
| Title | : | Essays on the Economic Causes of Obesity |
| Author | : | Charles Joseph Courtemanche |
| Publisher | : | ProQuest - 2008 |
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