Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175465 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP16/06
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal education and family income, becomes steeper. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the data, transitions into and out of obesity are examined, with higher rates of transition into obesity observed for those whose mothers have the lowest level of education. Decomposition of the concentration index with respect to income reveals a greater role for income related obesity mobility rather than obesity related income mobility.
Subjects: 
Obesity
socioeconomic gradient
longitudinal
JEL: 
I12
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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