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The effect of fat mass on educational attainment : examining the sensitivity to different identification strategies
Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie von; Smith, George Davey - In: Economics and human biology 10 (2012) 4, pp. 405-418
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Associations of mortality with own height using son's height as an instrumental variable
Carslake, David; Fraser, Abigail; Smith, George Davey; … - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 351-359
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387447
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The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income : evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age
Davies, Neil M.; Dickson, Matt; Smith, George Davey; … - 2019
We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural...
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