Childhood obesity rates are rapidly rising in many countries. Because it is highly likely that
obesity will persist into adulthood, current rates undermine the health and future of people in …

Over the past few decades, three issues have emerged as threats to the health of infants and
children in western, industrialised countries: the developmental impact of alcohol use in …

In recent decades overnutrition and obesity have been presented as a looming threat to the
health and wellbeing of children and infants, most notably in western industrialised …

The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades
has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child …

Existing empirical research on child overweight derives mainly from North America and
points at rising maternal employment as an explanation for the increasing trend in child …

This paper explores the effect of maternal employment on the nutritional status of children
below age 5 years in Bangladesh using data from the 2014 Bangladesh Demographic and …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the
association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural …

Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, this
article seeks to estimate the causal effect of maternal labour supply on the body mass index …

This paper examines parental influence on school children's everyday activities that are
related to a healthy or an unhealthy lifestyle. Using the Danish Time-Use and Consumption …

The prevalence of childhood obesity in China has been increasing over the past few
decades. In this paper, we investigate the causal relationship between maternal …