A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research on child care subsidies and childhood obesity found an association between receiving a subsidy and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese.
Just wondering:
Did the study look at what the children ate when they were away from child care centres?
Did the study look at children in the same centres who didn’t receive subsidies?
Did the study look at children in centres where none received subsidies?
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NZ data shows that in the most deprived decile (where childcare subsidies would be most prevalent one assumes) 13.9 percent of boys and 16.4 percent of girls are obese.
In the least deprived deciles the figures are respectively 5.2 and 5.7
Without knowing much about the study I would say it is further evidence that (generalising) poor lifestyle = poor diet.
But I can imagine the anti-welfare reform brigade picking this up as a reason why children should be in the full-time care of their mothers courtesy of the state.
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‘Decile’ should have been ‘quintile’.
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