Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within...

Children who are weighed for growth monitoring are frequently clothed, especially in the cold weather. Health workers commonly estimate and subtract the weight of these clothes, but the accuracy of these estimates is unknown. We assessed the accuracy of child weights adjusted for estimated clothing typical of hot, cold, and extremely cold ambient temperatures. Trained field workers weighed a sa...

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effectiveness of delivering an anthelmintic through a community child health programme on the weight gain of preschool children in Uganda. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Eastern Uganda. PARTICIPANTS 48 parishes participating in a new programme for child health: 24 offered children an additional service of anthelmintic treatment. The outcome i...

OBJECTIVE To determine what factors are associated with parental motivation to change body weight in overweight children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Dunedin, New Zealand. SUBJECTS Two hundred and seventy-one children aged 4-8 years, recruited in primary and secondary care, were identified as overweight (BMI ≥ 85th percentile) after screening. Parents completed questionnaires on...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether and to what extent the relationship between television viewing and children's weight status differs according to parental weight status. DESIGN Population-level survey including in-home and telephone interview components. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS Representative sample of children aged 6 to 19 years in 2002 (n = 1483). MAIN EXPOSURE Hours of televi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of gestational weight gain with child adiposity. STUDY DESIGN Using multivariable regression, we studied associations of total gestational weight gain and weight gain according to 1990 Institute of Medicine guidelines with child outcomes among 1044 mother-child pairs in Project Viva. RESULTS Greater weight gain was associat...