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Child height, health and human capital: Evidence using genetic markers

Height has long been recognized as being associated with better outcomes: the question is whether this association is causal. We use children's genetic variants as instrumental variables to deal with possible unobserved confounders and examine the effect of child/adolescent height on a wide ran...

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Autores principales: von Hinke Kessler Scholder, Stephanie, Davey Smith, George, Lawlor, Debbie A., Propper, Carol, Windmeijer, Frank
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IASP 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25673883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.09.009