Despite trends indicating a recent stabilizing in the upward obesity trend for children and adolescents in the U.S., child overweight remains a significant public health issue. Our analysis finds a nonlinear effect – the poorest and wealthiest children in our sample have the lowest BMIs, while the children in the middle of the SES distribution have the highest. Our findings may reflect the fact that younger children are more likely to be physically active than older children and adolescents, and suggest that the relationship between socioeconomic status and physical activity (and overweight) may change during childhood.
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