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As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note
Lin, Ming-Jen - 2007
This research note combines two national Taiwanese datasets to investigate the relationship between low birth weight (LBW) babies, their family background and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated with the probability of such children attending university at...
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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity
Chou, Shin-Yi - 2005
Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially …
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The Super Size of America : An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults
Rashad, Inas - 2005
The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid … Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various state-level variables have on body mass index and obesity. These …, display many of the expected effects on obesity and explain a substantial amount of its trend. These findings control for …
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The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity
Baum, Charles L. - 2011
not clear why the prevalence of obesity has increased so dramatically over the last 30 years … (NLSY) data, which allows us to compare the prevalence of obesity between cohorts surveyed roughly 25 years apart. Using the …
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