<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Huang, Wei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liu, Elaine M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zuppann, C. Andrew</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Relative Obesity and the Formation of Non-cognitive Abilities During Adolescence&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Human Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020-11-10 14:27:22</style></date></pub-dates></dates><elocation-id><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1018-9812R2</style></elocation-id><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3368/jhr.58.2.1018-9812R2</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We study the role of relative childhood and adolescent obesity in the development of non- cognitive abilities. We employ a novel identification strategy, utilizing the fact that one’s body size is a relative concept and there are large variations in body sizes across MSAs. We focus on children who move between MSAs. Controlling for origin-destination state pair fixed effects, we find that a 10 percentile point increase in relative body size would increase behavioral problems by 2 percentile points. This effect is of a similar magnitude to a two-year reduction in maternal education.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>