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Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity

dc.contributor.authorBerniell, Lucilaes
dc.contributor.authorde la Mata, Doloreses
dc.contributor.authorValdés, Nieveses
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-15T20:04:14Z
dc.date.available2014-10-15T20:04:14Z
dc.date.issued2012es
dc.identifier.citationBerniell, L., De la Mata, D., & Valdés, N. (2012). Spillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activity. CAF Working paper, 2012/03, Caracas: CAF. Retrieved from https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/232en
dc.identifier.urihttps://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/232
dc.description.tableofcontentsTo prevent modern health conditions like obesity, cancer, cardiovascular illness, and diabetes, which have reached epidemic-like proportions in recent decades, many health experts argue that students should receive Health Education (HED) at school. Although this type of education aims mainly to improve children's health profiles, it might affect other family members as well. This paper exploits state HED reforms as quasi-natural experiments to estimate the causal impact of HED received by children on their parents' physical activity. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the period 1999-2005 merged with data on state HED reforms from the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Health Policy Database, and the 2000 and 2006 School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS). To identify the spillover effects of HED requirements on parents' behavior we use a “differences-in-differences-in-differences" (DDD) methodology in which we allow for different types of treatments. We find a positive effect of HED reforms at the elementary school on the probability of parents doing light physical activity. Introducing major changes in HED increases the probability of fathers engaging in physical activity by 12.4 percentage points, while this probability for mothers does not seem to be affected. We find evidence of two channels that may drive these spillovers. We conclude that the gender specialization of parents in childcare activities, as well as information sharing between children and parents, may play a role in generating these indirect effects and in turn, in shaping healthy lifestyles within the household.en_US
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherCAFes
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCAF Working paper, 2012/03es
dc.rightsCC-BY-NCes_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/es_ES
dc.subjectEducaciónes
dc.subjectAlimentaciónes
dc.subjectInvestigación socioeconómicaes
dc.subjectSaludes
dc.titleSpillovers of health education at school on parents´ physical activityes
dc.typeworkingPaperes
dc.publisher.cityCaracases


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