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Mother's education and birth weight [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy.
Arnaud Chevalier, Vincent O'Sullivan
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Birth Weights of South African Babies: (II.) Effect of Birth Rank on Birth Weight [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1951 Eva J. Salber, E Bradshaw
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The Costs of Low Birth Weight [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005 Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health policy. This is because low birth weight (LBW) infants experience severe health and developmental difficulties that can impose enormous ...
David S. Lee +2 more
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Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in south China [PDF]
Social Science Research, February, 102691 (2022), 2022 This paper investigates whether associations between birth weight and prenatal ambient environmental conditions--pollution and extreme temperatures--differ by 1) maternal education; 2) children's innate health; and 3) interactions between these two. We link birth records from Guangzhou, China, during a period of high pollution, to ambient air pollution
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021 AbstractA large body of evidence documents the educational and labour market returns to birth weight, which are reflected in investments in large social safety net programmes targeting birth weight and early life health. However, there is no direct evidence on the private valuation of birth weight.
Damian Clarke +2 more
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Relation of Birth Weight with Maternal Pre-pregnancy Weight and Weight Gain during Pregnancy [PDF]
Indian Journal of Neonatal Medicine and Research, 2018 Introduction: Birth weight is an important factor which determines the outcome in neonate and also affects the chances of survival. There is a need to identify the modifiable factors which can impact the birth weight. Aim: To evaluate the relation of
Sunil Gavhane +2 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 Purpose: The aim was to investigate the associations between maternal thyroid parameters within the normal ranges during early pregnancy and birth outcomes, and further to examine whether the associations were modified by gestational weight gain (GWG ...
Bin Zhou +4 more
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Analysis of neonatal mortality:is standardizing for relative birth weight biased?
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2004 Background Infant mortality has traditionally been analyzed as a function of birth weight and birth weight-specific mortality. Often, however, when comparing two populations, the population with higher overall mortality has lower mortality at low birth ...
Kramer Michael S +2 more
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Birth outcomes for African and Caribbean babies in England and Wales: retrospective analysis of routinely collected data [PDF]
, 2012 Objectives: To compare mean birth weights, gestational ages and odds of preterm birth and low birth weight of live singleton babies of black African or Caribbean ethnicity born in 2005 or 2006 by mother's country of birth.
Datta-Nemdharry, P. +2 more
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