Stress and birth weight: Evidence from terrorist attacks

American Economic Review

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 511-515

  Camacho, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; TERRORISM;

BIRTH WEIGHT; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NOISE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TERRORISM;

EID: 44949210392     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.2.511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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