Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight 'gender assortative'?

被引：9

作者：

Costa-Font, Joan ^{[1
]}

Jofre-Bonet, Mireia ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Hlth Policy, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, England

[2] Off Hlth Econ, London, England

[3] City Univ London, Dept Econ, London, England

来源：

ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY | 2020年 / 39卷

关键词：

Gender-assortative transmission; Gender assortative; Child obesity; Child overweight; Role models; Inter-generational transmission; FATHER-SON PAIRS; BODY-MASS INDEX; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; MOTHER-DAUGHTER; FAMILY-SIZE; WEIGHT-GAIN; BMI; HEIGHT; CHILDREN; PARENTS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100907

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Using almost two decades worth of data from the Health Survey for England, that contain representative records of clinically measured weight and height, this paper studies whether parents and children's overweight (including obesity) is 'gender assortative'. Our findings suggest that the intergenerational transmission of parent's overweight differs by children's sex and is statistically different for fathers and mothers. Gender assortative overweight is stronger among pre-school age and school-aged children. The parent-child associations are large and precisely estimated, heterogeneous by children's age and sex and stronger among white children and children of older parents. These results suggest there is a gender assortative intergenerational association of overweight. (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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