The Effects of Children's Time Use and Home and Neighborhood Quality on their Body Weight and Cognitive/Behavioral Development

摘要: We estimate a directional distance function to assess the impacts of multiple time-varying parent and child inputs on cluster jointly produced outcomes for children aged 7 13 years. The specification avoids several well-known empirical problems associated with analysis household production data, namely, need aggregate outputs, assume separability among or reduced form equations. Using balanced panel families from National Longitudinal Survey Youth-Child Sample 1996 2000, we marginal contributions home neighborhood environmental quality children's time allocations, their math reading performance, behavior problems, body mass index. also measure productivity growth, technical change, efficiency outcomes. Our results indicate significant jointness good bad Significant improvements in reductions are better perceived environment, Head Start participation, increased family spent together during meals. Children's growth is found be highest at age 8 years diminishes thereafter.