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Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2022

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Will a decline in smoking increase body weights? : evidence from Belarus

Amialchuk, Aliaksandr; Bornukova, Kateryna; Ali, Mir M. - In: Eastern economic journal 44 (2018) 2, pp. 190-210

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Examining the temporal relationships between childhood obesity and asthma

Green, Tiffany L. - In: Economics and human biology 14 (2014), pp. 92-102

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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,...

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