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We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

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Wealth disparities for early childhood anthropometrics and skills : evidence from Chilean longitudinal data

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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives

Jones, Sam; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Anand, Paul - 2018

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome...

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