Parental Employment, Shared Parent-Child Activities and Childhood Obesity

Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-244

  Benson, Lisa ^a   Mokhtari, Manouchehr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Childhood obesity; Family economics; Family policy; Paternal employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955574633     PISSN: 10580476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10834-011-9249-0     Document Type: Article

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