Relative importance of birth size and postnatal growth for women's educational achievement

Early Human Development

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Li, Haojie ^a   DiGirolamo, Ann M ^b   Barnhart, Huiman X ^b   Stein, Aryeh D ^a,b   Martorell, Reynaldo ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth size; Early postnatal growth; Educational achievement; Guatemala; Schooling; Stunting; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD GROWTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION;

EID: 0347355217     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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