Work

Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

Year: 2009

Type: report

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status.Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of teens between the ages of 14 and 18.We obtained estimates of the association between weight and educational attainment using several regression model specifications that controlled for a variety of observed characteristics.Our results suggest that, in general, teens that are overweight or obese have levels of attainment that are about the same as teens with average weight.

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research

DOI: 10.3386/w14994

Authors: Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, Benjamin Yarnoff

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Chicago, The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2103071020

Cites: 57

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10