Bidirectional associations between mothers’ feeding practices and child eating behaviours

Many studies have explored the links between child eating, parenting food behaviors, child weight, and self-regulation, however, the evidence on how these elements relate to each other in terms of weight gain risk during early childhood is insufficient. Family feeding behaviors and individual differences in self-regulation within and outside of eating are linked to excessive […]

Alderman & Headey (2017) conducted a novel econometric analysis of 376,992 preschool children from 56 developing countries, to find out how influential parental education is for the child’s nutrition. Mothers appeared to affect nutritional returns to a greater extent than fathers, although the effects may be minimal for primary education. As the household wealth increased, […]