Mother's Nutrition Knowledge and Children's Dietary Intakes
利用美国食品消费数据，研究母亲营养知识对2至17岁儿童膳食摄入的影响，发现母亲知识影响儿童饮食且随年龄增长而减弱，营养知识是母亲教育影响儿童饮食的途径，支持教育通过提高健康投入配置效率影响健康选择的假说。
Abstract This article uses U.S. food consumption data to examine the effect of maternal nutrition knowledge on the dietary intakes of children between two and seventeen years of age. Results show that maternal knowledge influences children's diets and that such influence decreases as children grow older. Nutrition knowledge acts as a pathway through which maternal education influences children's diets. This finding supports the hypothesis that education affects health‐related choices by raising the allocative efficiency of health input use. The results suggest that nutrition education may be more effective if targeted both toward mothers with young children and directly toward school‐age children.