two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …

particular when depth, severity and persistence of obesity are accounted for. Girls whose mothers fail to complete secondary …

months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … mothers. Quantile regression finds that the children most impacted by maternal employment are those at the upper percentiles … pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

Sequence and cluster analysis is applied to measures of body mass index for mothers and children for four waves of the … cluster analysis is then applied. Distinct clusterings are found for both mothers and children and multinomial logit models … for maternal education and diet, and child exercise. There is no correlation between membership of groups for mothers and …