The effect of fat mass on educational attainment: examining the sensitivity to different identification strategies [0.03%]
脂肪量对受教育程度影响的敏感性分析：不同识别策略下的考察
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder,George Davey Smith,Debbie A Lawlor et al.
Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder et al.
The literature that examines the relationship between child or adolescent Body Mass Index (BMI) and academic attainment generally finds mixed results. This may be due to the use of different data sets, conditioning variables, or methodologi...
Sven E Wilson,Robert Crosnoe,Kellie Daniels
Sven E Wilson
Interpreting estimates of heritability--a note on the twin decomposition [0.03%]
遗传率估计的诠释———有关双胞胎分解的一个注记
Anders Stenberg
Anders Stenberg
While most outcomes may in part be genetically mediated, quantifying genetic heritability is a different matter. To explore data on twins and decompose the variation is a classical method to determine whether variation in outcomes, e.g. IQ ...
Clive R Belfield,Inas Rashad Kelly
Clive R Belfield
This paper looks at health outcomes, health behaviors, and health screening with respect to participation in Early Childhood Care and Education. With information on health status at multiple periods in time, we are able to look at whether h...
The Jewish advantage and household security: life expectancy among 19th Century Sephardim of Gibraltar [0.03%]
犹太人的优势与家庭安全——论19世纪直布罗陀赛法迪犹太人预期寿命问题
Lawrence A Sawchuk,Lianne Tripp,Ulianna Melnychenko
Lawrence A Sawchuk
Using the historical population of Gibraltar to examine the pattern of mortality of Jews and Roman Catholics revealed that: (1) the Jews exhibited a significantly better health status as measured by life expectancy at birth (47.66 and 47.56...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):360-70. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.02.006 2013
Family mealtimes: a contextual approach to understanding childhood obesity [0.03%]
从情境角度理解儿童肥胖问题：以家庭就餐时间为切入点
Barbara H Fiese,Amber Hammons,Diana Grigsby-Toussaint
Barbara H Fiese
There has been a growing interest in the role that shared family mealtimes may play in promoting the health and well-being of children. Families that regularly eat their main meal together four or more times a week are more likely to have c...
Joseph Price,Jeffrey Swigert
Joseph Price
We use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to document the degree to which childhood obesity varies among siblings. We find considerable differences in body weight between siblings with over half of the ...
Robert Crosnoe
Robert Crosnoe
The last two decades have witnessed dramatic increases in obesity and family instability. To the extent that the social stigma of obesity is a risk factor and family instability represents the potential compromise of important protective fa...
Age trends in prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Roma minority population of Croatia [0.03%]
克罗地亚罗姆人少数族裔心血管危险因素的年龄趋势
Hrvojka Marija Zeljko,Tatjana Skarić-Jurić,Nina Smolej Narančić et al.
Hrvojka Marija Zeljko et al.
The Roma (Gypsy) are the largest European minority population characterized by poverty, social exclusion as well as by numerous life-style and cultural specificities, which all could have an adverse impact on their cardiovascular health. Th...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):326-36. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.02.007 2013
Patricia M Anderson
Patricia M Anderson
Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) data from kindergarten through eighth grade, this paper investigate the relationships among maternal employment, family routines and obesity. More hours ...