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1. Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?
abstractThis paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data, we compute the distance between each household's census tract of residence and the nearest Walmart Supercenter. We estimate instrumental variables models that leverage the predictable geographic expansion patterns of Walmart Supercenters outward from Walmart's corporate headquarters. Results suggest that closer proximity to a Walmart Supercenter improves the food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also sizeable for middle-income children.
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; Ndirangu, Murugi;2018
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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2. Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?
Courtemanche, Charles J.; Carden, Art; Ndirangu, Murugi; Zhou, Xilin;2018
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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3. Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?
Courtemanche, Charles J.; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; Ndirangu, Murugi;2018
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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4. Parental work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin;2017
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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5. Parental work hours and childhood obesity : evidence using instrumental variables related to sibling school eligibility
abstractThis study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at kindergarten eligibility. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified in previous studies. We find no evidence that the impacts of maternal and paternal work are different. Subsample analyses find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and mother's marital status.
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin;2017
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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6. Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
abstractThis paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data, we compute the distance between each household's census tract of residence and the nearest Walmart Supercenter.We estimate instrumental variables models that leverage the predictable geographic expansion patterns of Walmart Supercenters outward from Walmart's corporate headquarters. Results suggest that closer proximity to a Walmart Supercenter improves the food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also sizeable for middle-income children
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; Ndirangu, Murugi;2018
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7. Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
abstractThis paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow geographic identifiers available in the restricted version of these data, we compute the distance between each household's census tract of residence and the nearest Walmart Supercenter. We estimate instrumental variables models that leverage the predictable geographic expansion patterns of Walmart Supercenters outward from Walmart's corporate headquarters. Results suggest that closer proximity to a Walmart Supercenter improves the food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also sizeable for middle-income children
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Ndirangu, Murugi; Zhou, Xilin;2018
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8. Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity : Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
abstractThis study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at kindergarten eligibility. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified in previous studies. We find no evidence that the impacts of maternal and paternal work are different. Subsample analyses find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and mother's marital status
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin;2017
Availability: Link
9. Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity : Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility
abstractThis study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and Young Adult Supplement. We first show that mothers' work hours increase gradually as the age of the youngest child rises, whereas mothers' spouses' work hours exhibit a discontinuous jump at kindergarten eligibility.Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified in previous studies. We find no evidence that the impacts of maternal and paternal work are different. Subsample analyses find that the effects are concentrated among advantaged households, as measured by an index involving education, race, and mother's marital status
Courtemanche, Charles; Tchernis, Rusty; Zhou, Xilin;2017
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10. Do Walmart Supercenters improve food security?
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; Ndirangu, Murugi;2019
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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