Family Meals and Child Academic and Behavioral Outcomes

• Autores: Daniel P. Miller, Jane Waldfogel, Wen-Jui Han
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 83, Nº. 6, 2012, págs. 2104-2120
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study investigates the link between the frequency of family breakfasts and dinners and child academic and behavioral outcomes in a panel sample of 21,400 children aged 5–15. It complements previous work by examining younger and older children separately and by using information on a large number of controls and rigorous analytic methods to discern whether there is causal relation between family meal frequency (FMF) and child outcomes. In child fixed-effects models, which controlled for unchanging aspects of children and their families, there were no significant (p < .05) relations between FMF and either academic or behavioral outcomes, a novel finding. These results were robust to various specifications of the FMF variables and did not differ by child age.