A Empirical Study of Subjective Debt Burden: Focused on Group Comparison and Parental Socioeconomic Status

ObjectiveTo examine the association between parental socioeconomic status (SES) and the risk of offspring overweight/obesity and the changes of the association that occur as children grow older.DesignWe used data from the nationally representative longitudinal survey of the China Family Panel Studies of 2010 and its three follow-up waves in 2012, 2014 and 2016.ParticipantsA total of 6724 children aged 0–15 years old were included.Primary and secondary outcome measuresAverage household income and paternal and maternal education levels were used as SES indicators. Logistic regression model for panel data was used to examine the associations between SES indicators and child overweight/obesity. A restricted cubic spline linear regression model was used to estimate body mass index (BMI) trajectories with child growth across parental SES levels.ResultsCompared with the lowest education level (primary school or less), the ORs for fathers who had completed junior high school, senior high school and junior college or higher were 0.85 (95% CI 0.75 to 0.97), 0.77 (95% CI 0.64 to 0.92) and 0.72 (95% CI 0.55 to 0.93), respectively. The corresponding ORs for mothers were 0.76 (95% CI 0.67 to 0.86), 0.59 (95% CI 0.47 to 0.72) and 0.45 (95% CI 0.34 to 0.60), respectively. A negative association between parental education and offspring overweight/obesity was observed in the first 10 years but not in children 11–15 years old. BMI differences across parental education levels emerged from birth and widened before 6–7 years old, but decreased before adolescence. High average household income was related to a low risk of offspring overweight/obesity but not when parental education level was adjusted for.ConclusionHigh parental education levels were associated with a low risk of offspring overweight/obesity, especially before adolescence. Effective approaches need to be adopted in early childhood to reduce socioeconomic differences in overweight/obesity.

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Self-Selection and Parental Socioeconomic Status as Determinants of the Values of West Point Cadets

Armed Forces & Society ◽

10.1177/0095327x9502200106 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 103-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

John P. Hammill ◽

David R. Segal ◽

Mady Wechsler Segal

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

West Point ◽

Self Selection ◽

Parental Socioeconomic Status

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Inequality in top performance: an examination of cross-country variation in excellence gaps across different levels of parental socioeconomic status

Educational Research and Evaluation ◽

10.1080/13803611.2018.1520130 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (1-2) ◽

pp. 68-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Babs Jacobs ◽

Maarten H. J. Wolbers

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Cross Country ◽

Parental Socioeconomic Status ◽

Different Levels

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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

Journal of Economic Literature ◽

10.1257/jel.47.1.87 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 87-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 625

Author(s):

Janet Currie

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Child Health ◽

Parental Education ◽

Economic Status ◽

Labor Market Outcomes ◽

Human Capital Development ◽

Market Outcomes ◽

Capital Development ◽

Parental Socioeconomic Status ◽

And Child Health

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental socioeconomic status affects child health? And, what is the evidence relating child health to future educational and labor market outcomes? I show that there is now strong evidence of both links, suggesting that health could play a role in the intergenerational transmission of economic status.

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