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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …

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Examining the education gradient in chronic illness

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2012

This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. In the analysis, we take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases, and we use methods that account for the possibility that unmeasured factors exist that are...

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Racial/ethnic and education-related disparities in control of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among diabetics

Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2011

Objectives: To estimate racial/ethnic and education-related disparities and examine trends in uncontrolled cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from NHANES III, 1988- 1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report...

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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children

Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011

, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 …

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