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' education on birth weight. A few causal analyses have been done, but they show conflicting results. We estimated the effect of … mothers' education on birth weight by using data on a school reform in Norway. During the period 1960–1972, all municipalities … education reform to create exogenous variation in the education variable. The education data were combined with large sets of …
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Link and Phelan have proposed to explain the persistence of health inequalities from the fact that socioeconomic status is a “fundamental cause” which embodies an array of resources that can be used to avoid disease risks no matter what mechanisms are relevant at any given time. To test this...
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