The identification of factors affecting birth weight is a key issue in human development due to its established … smoking behaviours on birth weight. We use the intergenerational association between grandparents' education and smoking … behaviour and the corresponding parental variables to aid the identification of parents' education and smoking on birth weight …

height-for-age. Effects on weight-for-height and weight-for-age for a similar magnitude increase in salinity are 0.13 and 0 …

height-for-age. Effects on weight-for-height and weight-for-age for a similar magnitude increase in salinity are 0.13 and 0 …

aims to assess whether there is a causal relationship between weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals …. To address the endogeneity of weight loss that is likely to result in biased estimation results, the analysis is based on … data from a randomized field experiment. In this experiment, financial weight-loss rewards were offered to a random …

weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … cognitive test scores by 8.1 percent or 0.11 standard deviations at ages 5-8 years. Low birth weight infants experienced a lower … test score compared with normal birth weight infants. The positive effect of birth weight on a cognitive test score is …

have played a small part in reducing health inequalities in childhood weight in Gateshead when comparing with other local … inequalities in childhood weight. …