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Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Deding, Mette; Lausten, Mette - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 1, pp. 42-55

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The origins of early childhood anthropometric persistence

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

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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

university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased …

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Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - In: Journal of health economics 41 (2015), pp. 107-116

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The effects of a minimum cigarette purchase age of 21 on prenatal smoking and infant health

Yan, Ji - In: Eastern economic journal 40 (2014) 3, pp. 289-308

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While mothers work do children shirk? : determinants of youth obesity

Chowhan, James; Stewart, Jennifer M. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 36 (2014) 2, pp. 287-308

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The nutrition transition and indicators of child malnutrition

Kimenju, Simon C.; Qaim, Matin - 2014

We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...

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