Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight Across 3 Generations
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Birth weight and income: interactions across generations.
This paper attempts to answer a series of questions regarding the interaction of income and birth weight across generations. First, does the effect of the income of a mother during her pregnancy on her infant's birth weight depend on the family's birth weight history (genetic predisposition)? Second, does the effect of low birth weight status on adult life chances depend on income during early ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx340