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Separated at Girth: US Twin Estimates of the Effects of Birth Weight

2009-01-01

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The fetal origins hypothesis asserts that nutrient deprivation in utero can raise chronic disease risk. Within economics, this hypothesis has gained acceptance as a leading explanation for the correlations between birth weight, a proxy for fetal nutrient intake, and adult outcomes. Exploiting birth-weight differences between twins using (a) a newly-created dataset of twins from 1960–1982 California birth records a...

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Literature Corpus work: 286bd510-b94b-5162-9b6c-b0eed1afee98
DOI: 10.1257/app.1.1.49

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