Using almost two decades worth of data from the Health Survey for England, that contain representative records of clinically measured weight and height, this paper studies whether parents and children’s overweight (including obesity) is ‘gender assortative’. Our findings suggest that the intergenerational transmission of parent’s overweight differs by children’s sex and is statistically different for fathers and mothers. Gender assortative overweight is stronger among pre-school age and school-aged children. The parent-child associations are large and precisely estimated, heterogeneous by children’s age and sex and stronger among white children and children of older parents. These results suggest there is a gender assortative intergenerational association of overweight.

本文使用英格兰健康调查提供的近二十年数据，其中包含临床测量的体重和身高的代表性记录，研究了父母和孩子的超重（包括肥胖）是否是“性别差异”。我们的发现表明，父母超重的代际传播因孩子的性别而异，并且父亲和母亲在统计学上也不同。学龄前儿童和学龄儿童的性别分类超重现象更严重。亲子关系庞大且经过精确估算，按孩子的年龄和性别不同，并且在白人孩子和父母年龄较大的孩子中更强。这些结果表明，存在超重的性别分类代际关联。