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-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
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This paper measures the degree of inequality of opportunity in birthweight and birthlength for a sample of Irish infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers' education and mothers' smoking status. Stochastic dominance tests reveal the presence of inequality of opportunity but...
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characteristics. The decomposition is carried out over the whole of the distribution, with a particular focus on the upper percentiles … and a number of different decomposition techniques are applied and compared. The overall increase in BMI at higher …
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