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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
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Prepregnancy Obesity and Birth Outcomes
Averett, Susan L. - 2015
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022648
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The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes
Chen, Xi; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes - specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight - using a nationally representative dataset in rural China. During the span of our data (i.e., 1991-2000), indoor...
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The Demography of Obesity
Himes, Christine L. - In: The Oxford handbook of the social science of obesity. 2012
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Still unequal at birth: birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at age 9
McGovern, Mark E. - 2012
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Still unequal at birth : birth weight, socio-economic status and outcomes at age 9
McGovern, Mark E. - In: The economic and social review 44 (2013) 1, pp. 53-84
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Still unequal at birth : birth weight, socioeconomic status and outcomes at Age 9
McGovern, Mark E. - 2011
Birth weight is an important aspect of public health which has been linked to increased risk of infant death, increased …, including test scores, hospital stays and health. An advantage of the data is that I am able to control for a number of … conditions and later outcomes. -- Early Life Conditions ; Birth Weight ; Health Inequalities ; Test Scores …
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Ramadan fasting, sex-ratio at birth, and birth weight : no effects on Muslim infants born in Germany
Jürges, Hendrik - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 13-16
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Birth weight as an indicatorof human welfare
Ward, William Peter - In: The Oxford handbook of economics and human biology, (pp. 621-631). 2016
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The benefits of intervention : birth weights in Basle 1912-1920
Floris, Joël; Staub, Kaspar; Woitek, Ulrich - 2016
To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low...
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